Night of the Pencils (1986)

Original title

La Noche de los Lápices

Directed by

Héctor Olivera

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about seven students in Argentina who are kidnapped in 1976 after protesting for lower bus fares. It follows their experiences during the country's dictatorship and is based on real events.

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What happens

Night of the Pencils (Spanish: La noche de los lápices) is a 1986 Argentine historical drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and written by Olivera and Daniel Kon. It is based on the non-fiction book by María Seoane and Héctor Ruiz Núñez. It stars Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Leonardo Sbaraglia, José María Monje, Pablo Machado, Adriana Salonia and Héctor Bidonde. The film, based on the actual events recorded in history as the Night of the Pencils (La noche de los lápices), tells the story of seven students who, after protesting for lower bus fares for students in the city of La Plata, were abducted in September 1976, during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976–1983), and subsequently disappeared. Only one student survived to tell what happened. The civic-military dictatorship of Argentina called this period of state terrorism in the country the Dirty War, as a part of Operation Condor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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