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- Olvidados in english
- Forgotten (Spanish: Olvidados) is a 2013 Bolivian drama film written by Elia Petridis and directed by Carlos Bolado, and is based on the repression and.
- After suffering a heart attack, retired General José Mendieta (Damián Alcázar) is haunted by his dark past as an officer in Operation Condor.
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‘Forgotten’ (‘Olvidados’): Film Review
Latin America has a Hollywood history when it comes to films about Operation Condor, the late-1970s continent-wide military drive to wipe out communism from the continent. It was back in 1985 that Argentinean Luis Puenzo‘s very fine The Official Story won the best foreign language Oscar, and since then, movies about the executions and disappearances of the era have become a subgenre of Latin American cinema. Now comes Forgotten, a Bolivian-made, Mexican-directed contribution to the debate, and sadly, despite its showy technical slickness, it doesn’t stand up. Confused both dramatically and politically, this is a film whose perhaps worthy ambitions seem to have outstripped its makers’ talents — ironically, Forgotten is an expression of the very political forgetfulness it wishes to rectify.
The warning bells sound early, with historical footage sweeping too quickly across images of dictators — among others Videla in Argentina, Pinochet in Chile, and Banzer in Bolivia &mdash
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Forgotten (2013 film)
2013 film
| Forgotten | |
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| Directed by | Carlos Bolado |
| Written by | Mauricio d’Avis |
| Starring | Damián Alcázar |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Bolivia |
| Language | Spanish |
Forgotten (Spanish: Olvidados) is a 2013 Bolivian drama film written by Elia Petridis and directed by Carlos Bolado, and is based on the repression and killings associated with the U.S.-backed Operation Condor.[1] It was selected as the Bolivian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.[2]
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“OLVIDADOS” Film Review
Remembering Latin America’s Forgotten Ones
“Olvidados” is one of those gripping, hard hitting political pictures about Latin America, a tradition including Sergei Eisenstein’s 1932 epic “Que Viva Mexico!”, Costa-Gavras’ 1972 “State of Siege” and 1982 “Missing”, Roger Spottiswoode’s 1983 “Under Fire” and Oliver Stone’s 1986 “Salvador.”
Like those classics “Olvidados” graphically dramatizes social struggles south of the border, the dictatorial reactionary regimes armed and trained by the Yankee colossus in the north. Although covering similar territory, the aforementioned movies were made by North Americans and Europeans, while “Olvidados” is largely a Latin American production
Set and shot mostly in Bolivia and Chile, “Olvidados” (the forgotten, vanished people) creatively uses a flashback structure to tell a harrowing tale. The screenplay dramatizes the Washington-backed campaign of state terror during the 1970s in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia aimed at wiping out the South American Left. Cli
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