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The Calendar (2012)

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Original title
El Almanaque
Directed by
José Pedro Charlo
Genre
documentary film
Country
Uruguay
Runtime
1h 13m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores the experience of political imprisonment in Uruguay. It draws from the director's own history of incarceration and uses personal accounts to examine that period.

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What happens

El almanaque es una película documental en colores coproducción de Argentina, España y Uruguay dirigida por José Pedro Charlo según su propio guion que se estrenó en Uruguay el 31 de marzo de 2012.​ José Pedro Charlo, que también estuvo preso en esa época, había codirigido con Aldo Garay en 2008 el documental El círculo, basada en la vida de Henry Engler, dirigente tupamaro preso en Uruguay durante trece años. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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