108 (2010)
- Original title
- Cuchillo de Palo
- Directed by
- Renate Costa
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Paraguay
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 12 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
A woman looks into the life and death of her uncle in Paraguay. She discovers he was among many gay men unfairly blamed by a past dictatorship for a kidnapping.
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What happens
108 Cuchillo de Palo (Spanish: Cuchillo de palo) is a Paraguayan-Spanish documentary film, directed by Renate Costa and released in 2010. The film centres on Costa's investigation into the life and death of her uncle Rodolfo, who was one of over 600 gay men scapegoated by the authoritarian government of Alfredo Stroessner for the 1982 kidnapping of Mario Luis Palmieri in Asunción. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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