Confrontar lo indecible en el cine documental argentino y brasileño. Los casos Urondo y Herzog

Abstract

Using some reflections on testimony and documentary of memory, I propose to examine and interpret similarities and differences in the procedures of documentary constructions Paco Urondo, la palabra justa (Argentina, 2004) by Daniel Desaloms y Vlado, 30 anos depois (Brazil, 2005) by Joao Batista de Andrade, which deal with the life and death of the poet, journalist and militant of Montoneros Francisco Urondo (1930-1976) and Vladimir Herzog (1937-1975), also a journalist and screenwriter, linked to the PCB, both assassinated during the dictatorships of the 1970s. In Brazil as and in Argentina, the 1970's were marked by revolutionary struggles, extreme state violence and resistance to dictatorships. However, despite the similarity of contexts, the way of representing that struggle and confronting the unspeakable of dictatorial violence shows some differences between them that are almost constant. In order to understand the specificities of each film, I propose as a possible interpretation the marks of the different policies of truth and justice carried out in each country show up as the product of different processes of transition that would be printed: in Brazil but not agreed or less agreed in Argentina.