Movie
The Silence of Others
2019 · 95 min
A quiet, patient act of bearing witness, letting elderly survivors speak plainly while the weight of buried history presses steadily on the viewer.
- Directed by
- Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Ana Messuti, Ascensión Mendieta, Carlos Slepoy
- Tagline
- Can democracy be built on forgetting?
- Overview
- The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic, tense and bleak. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Justice, memory, politics, grief
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Ana Messuti, Ascensión Mendieta, Carlos Slepoy