Fatherland

Fatherland (2011)

Documentary

Fatherland brings a rigorous structural approach to a site of monuments that is also a place of movement, criss-crossed daily by tourists and locals. The grounds are laid out like city blocks, with wide avenues branching onto laneways filled with elaborate mausoleums. The film does not attempt to tour the cemetery as one would on foot, however, but rather moves chronologically through the history enshrined there. A series of individuals are framed in static compositions as they read aloud excerpts from the writings of noteworthy Argentines interred within. (Some license has been taken, as the final resting places of certain figures represented - such as journalist Rodolfo Walsh, who was among the "disappeared" - remain unknown. The result is both poetic and political.) Beginning in the early 1800s, this history comprises civil war, battles with the country's native population, the conflict between the city and the provinces, and years of military dictatorship.

Director: Nicolás Prividera

Casts

	Vera Rentero as
	Daniel Perczyk as
	José Campusano as
	Carlos Gamerro as
	Marcelo Bertuccio as
	Mariana Enriquez as
	Alejandro Tantanian as
	Emilio Garcia Wehbi as
	Gustavo Nielsen as
	Ricardo Ibarlucia as
	Andrés Levinson as
	Gustavo Fontán as
	Vera Czemerinski as
	Pablo Mazzola as
	Ricardo Watson as
	Vanessa Ragone as
	Leonardo Oyola as
	Luis Benítez as
	Hernán Ronsino as
	Ignacio Masllorens as
	Julián Teubal as
	Valeria Castello-Joubert as
	Martín Kohan as
	Sebastián Russo as
	Aníbal Jarkowski as
	Agustín Mendilaharzu as
	Marianela Pelzmajer as
	Sebastián Escofet as
	Carolina Sborovsky as
	Maricel Álvarez as
	Evangelina Loguercio as
	Silvina Segundo as
	Lucía Cedrón as
	Valeria Meiller as
	Susana Pampín as
	Mariano Shuster as
	Denise Vignolo as
	Julián Axat as
	Cristian De Napoli as
	Félix Bruzzone as
	Raquel Robles as
	Marcelo Delgado as
	Marcelo Pitrola as
	Ángela Urondo as
	Nicolás Prividera as
	Cecilia Gargano as

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