100 minutos
Fatherland brings a rigorous structural approach to a site of monuments that is also a place of movement, criss-crossed daily by tourists and locals. The grounds are laid out like city blocks, with wide avenues branching onto laneways filled with elaborate mausoleums. The film does not attempt to tour the cemetery as one would on foot, however, but rather moves chronologically through the history enshrined there. A series of individuals are framed in static compositions as they read aloud excerpts from the writings of noteworthy Argentines interred within. (Some license has been taken, as the final resting places of certain figures represented - such as journalist Rodolfo Walsh, who was among the "disappeared" - remain unknown. The result is both poetic and political.) Beginning in the early 1800s, this history comprises civil war, battles with the country's native population, the conflict between the city and the provinces, and years of military dictatorship.
Vera Rentero
Daniel Perczyk
José Campusano
Carlos Gamerro
Marcelo Bertuccio
Mariana Enriquez
Alejandro Tantanian
Emilio Garcia Wehbi
Gustavo Nielsen
Ricardo Ibarlucia
Andrés Levinson
Gustavo Fontán
Vera Czemerinski
Pablo Mazzola
Ricardo Watson
Vanessa Ragone
Leonardo Oyola
Luis Benítez
Hernán Ronsino
Ignacio Masllorens
Julián Teubal
Valeria Castello-Joubert
Martín Kohan
Sebastián Russo
Aníbal Jarkowski
Agustín Mendilaharzu
Marianela Pelzmajer
Sebastián Escofet
Carolina Sborovsky
Maricel Álvarez
Evangelina Loguercio
Silvina Segundo
Lucía Cedrón
Valeria Meiller
Susana Pampín
Mariano Shuster
Denise Vignolo
Julián Axat
Cristian De Napoli
Félix Bruzzone
Raquel Robles
Marcelo Delgado
Marcelo Pitrola
Ángela Urondo
Nicolás Prividera
Cecilia Gargano
