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A Twelve-Year Night

La noche de 12 años

2018

Álvaro Brechner

Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso ...

6.9

6,202

Drama 1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad". The three men will remain in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them is Pepe Mujica, later to become president of Uruguay.

	Author	Review
	Alfonso Rivera Cineuropa	"Brechner manages to make his audience experience the prisoners’ descent into the sewers of inhumanity without losing hope or confidence in freedom and life."	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"It’s an impressive work that further confirms writer-director Alvaro Brechner as one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade."	POS
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"The movie has a running time you feel in your bones (...) 'A Twelve Year Night' avoids the easy trappings of triumph-of-the-human-spirit narratives"	POS

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