Italo-Brazilian Co-production 'Retorno a Buenos Aires' Premieres at Venice Film Festival
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- Folha de S.Paulo
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The Italo-Brazilian co-production 'Retorno a Buenos Aires' made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it is competing for the Golden Lion. Directed by Chilean-Italian filmmaker Marco Bechis, the film was shot over four weeks in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and three weeks in Turin, Italy. The production features actor Adriano Giannini as Mariano Guerra, an Italian doctor who returns to Argentina after 33 years to testify in the trial of former military members who kidnapped and tortured him during the Argentine dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Brazilian actress Paula Cohen portrays Judge Desideria Losada, and Eduardo Hoy plays the younger version of Mariano.
The plot explores the theme of survivor's guilt. Mariano survived the regime by collaborating with it, working as a nurse in a torture center where he revived prisoners for further interrogation and administered sedatives to those sent on death flights. Director Marco Bechis, who was himself a political prisoner during the Argentine dictatorship, stated that while the story is not his own, it stems from a wound he knows personally. The film follows Mariano as he reconnects with other survivors and the daughter of a former partner while facing his past.
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