Tosco
(Tosco)
Adrián Jaime | Documentary
2011 | 90 minutes | Argentina
In 1966, under General Onganía’s dictatorship, Argentina faced a hidden genocide. This film explores union leader Agustín Tosco’s fight for justice.
Synopsis
This documentary revisits the harrowing history of Argentina's 1966 dictatorship under General Juan Carlos Onganía, a period that saw the rise of systemic repression and cultural censorship. In particular, the film focuses on Agustín Tosco, a prominent union leader who played a pivotal role in resisting the regime.
Under Onganía's government, economic instability and authoritarian policies worsened the country's social fabric, particularly through measures like wage freezes, inflation, and crackdowns on labor and academic freedoms.
Tosco's unwavering fight for justice against the regime's growing tyranny, coupled with his martyrdom in the years following his persecution, encapsulates the personal and collective costs of dissent under a dictatorship that, in its final years, would contribute to the larger pattern of state-sponsored violence that would culminate in the Dirty War.
Reviews
“In this film – the best visual document on the figure of Agustín Tosco – is all his personality: his word, his marches, his prisons, his wisdom, his ideology. His figure. A monument to his life deserved. A document that will stay forever. To learn what is dignity. A human being to have it always as a model.” - Osvaldo Bayer
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Pragda subjects
Activism
Biography
Fascism + Repression
History
Human Rights
Labor Studies
Latin American Studies
Political Science
South America
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DIRECTOR: Adrián Jaime
NATIONALITY: Argentina
YEAR: 2011
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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