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

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)

Trailer

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