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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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