Garaje Olimpo

Another Argentinian film about the dirty war of 1976-1983. I did a presentation on the power of film as a means of protest and remembrance. That's where I got all these clips.

This movie was directed by a guy who was actually tortured by the regime. You can see at least several large portions of it online.

The sort of anti-establishing shot of the muddy water in the beginning is important. The film focuses on two stories - one of a girl taken to a concentration camp who tries to use her sexuality and relationship with one of the torturers to save her life. The other story is based on the true story of the resistance and a girl who placed a bomb under the bed of a cop who was her friend's dad. The girl in the camp suffers the same fate as everyone else and is dumped out of a plane at several thousand feet into the muddy water at the same time as the bomb goes off in the film.