Cinema
Un muro de silencio
Lita Stantic · 1993
Synopsis
Buenos Aires, 1990: a British director, Kate Benson, arrives to shoot a film about the dictatorship, according to Página/12. The screenplay is inspired by the life of Silvia Cassini, whose husband was abducted; remarried, Silvia has tried to pick up the thread of her life, until the day she learns that a film about her is being shot without her consent. Vanessa Redgrave and Ofelia Medina play the leading roles.
Context
Released on 10 June 1993, the film was co-produced by Argentina, Mexico and the United Kingdom, and written by the director with Graciela Maglie and Gabriela Massuh, who received the Silver Condor for original screenplay in 1994. It is her only feature film. Página/12 reports that it drew about fifty thousand spectators on release, then one hundred thousand with the screenings followed by debates. Lautaro Murúa, actor and filmmaker, plays the screenwriter.
Who it is for
A drama in Spanish and English, one hundred and seven minutes long, about memory and the right to tell another person's pain.
Prizes and reception
One of the first fiction films about the dictatorship and the disappeared, according to Página/12; awarded a prize for its screenplay.