Neither Hero Nor Traitor
(2021, original release: 2019)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Pragda, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12219668
LANGUAGE
Spanish
NOTES

Title from title frames

Buenos Aires, 1982. Matías (19) has recently finished his military service and dreams of going to Spain to study music far from a dictatorship. His problems come down to convincing his girlfriend to meet him there at a later date and to get around his father’s opposition. But the playing board changes completely when the Falklands War breaks out and he is drafted along with his friends. At first, Matías will agree to the call-up, but he will realize that he isn’t feeling this war – or maybe any war, to be honest, no matter how just the cause may seem to be. The fear to die but also the horror of killing, a Republican grandfather, friends turned strangers who point guns at each other, a shot in the foot as an act of friendship… his environment demands that he ‘mature.’ Will desertion be his first adult act? Treason and loyalty, fear, and braveness. The story of a deserter

Film

In Process Record

Gastón Cocchiarale, Inés Estévez, Juan Grandinetti, Rafael Spregelburd, Verónica Gerez

Originally produced by Pragda in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits