Francesc Vilaprinyó analyzes in this investigation the perspective of the current Argentine cinema on the Argentine Military Dictatorship. The analysis serves the author not only to see how the current Argentine cinema reflects the most immediate past, but also to analyze the survival of the dictatorship’s wounds in the current Argentine society.
In recent years, the screens of Spain have seen an authentic emergence of Argentinian cinema, which, although it had been present on the billboard until the end of the last decade, nowadays has become practically a constant in cinemas.
Much of the painful imaginary, of sordid social and existential reality that the films show, was born as a result of the traumatic history of this country during the last decades, highlighting especially the 70’s by the wave of violence generated by the military Dictatorship. The objective of this research is to seek and establish nuances and panoramic views of this period of the dictatorship through films shot the last thirty years. A search in which we are not restricted only to the events of the period, but also to the scars of such a traumatic experience, some wounds of which Argentina’s society still suffers.
The objective of this investigation has been to present a sufficiently wide perspective of the cinematographic creations around the facts, the environment and the consequences of the Dictatorship of the Military Junta in Argentina (1976-1983). It came to power in 1976 and began a brutal process of extermination of dissents of all kinds. The rule of law was canceled overnight until practically the last trace, and from the hand of the economy minister Martínez de Hoz was carried out an ultraliberal and free trade action; with the extreme measures of economic opening, a false bubble of prosperity was achieved for the upper middle classes that broke out in 1980-81, and which, together with the Malvinas calamity, deteriorated the prestige of the dictatorship. This was deflated and finally, in 1983 free elections were called.
