A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
- Original title
- La noche de 12 años
- Directed by
- Álvaro Brechner
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Argentina, France, Uruguay, Spain
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 304 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 film about three political prisoners held in isolation for twelve years under a dictatorship. It follows their daily struggle to keep their minds and spirits intact while being cut off from the outside world.
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What happens
A Twelve-Year Night (Spanish: La noche de 12 años) is a 2018 drama film directed by Álvaro Brechner. It premiered in Official Selection at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, and it was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won the Golden Pyramid Award at the 40th Cairo International Film Festival. It is a co-production between Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, France and Germany. The film follows the twelve-year incarceration of members of the Tupamaros, a far-left urban guerrilla group active in the 1960s and 1970s, nine of whom were held as "hostages" between 1972 and 1985. It dramatises the experiences of José Mujica, Mauricio Rosencof and Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro. Mujica later became the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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