Dec 10, 2025
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Forty years after the judgment of the history of the Juntas in Argentina, the Argentine Nurembamber Prodríguez Arias and the trial that did not have a legal history that marked the history of the country.This work, added to Santiago Stater's Fible, Argentina, Argentina, Argentina, Rodríguez himself is surrounded by dialogue, political pressure and the most important thing.
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The acquisition of 530 hours of trial recordings was a great challenge, according to Rodríguez Arias: The file remained in the restriction of the federal room, and it was necessary to ask the President of the time, Dr. Martín Irurzun, to be sure to have permission to use it."No one ever asked. It was a material that was controlled because it was shown for three minutes, and because it was audible" and because, "no one," no one, " The process of copying and transferring U cassettes between ComodoroPy and the National Archives took three months, under the strict supervision of the court "It was really forbidden.It was also wise that this did not spread because there could be a revolution immediately: the armed forces would not want it," said Rodríguez Arias, who emphasized the political tension that surrounded the case and the urgency with which President Raúl Alfonsín asked to resolve the case.
The narrative structure of the Argentine Nuremberg is not limited to the testimony of the trial.There are interviews with the judges, the prosecutor Julio César Strassera, the six surviving victims, Estela Carlotto, Tomás Abraham and Miguel Bonasso, to offer a comprehensive and dignified view of a "very sensitive" subject.The title of the documentary directly refers to the Nuremberg trials and the comparison is strengthened in the narration: "Strassera says that this trial was better than the Nuremberg trials, because in the Nuremberg trials the judges were from countries that are, basically from the United States, and here they were civilian judges, judges who could have tried Rodríguez Arias.
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The documentary, directed by Ulises de la Ordán, summarizes in 177 minutes more than 530 hours of original recordings from the hearings in which the prosecution, led by Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno-Ocampo, accused nine leaders of the three juntas of crimes related to the illegal disappearance of people.The film deprives itself of actors and entertainment and relies exclusively on the testimonies of survivors and relatives of the disappeared, as well as on the palpable tension in the judicial institution.
De La Oraden explains the culture: "It was an idea created by testing 530 hours of tunnels of unprecedented material that no one had seen."
The process of selecting and compiling the material was exhaustive."Searching the entire file took nine months. It wasn't about 'going away' from 530 to three hours, but thinking about how to find a way in that huge archive to tell what happened in the trial," explains De la Orden.The director worked with editor Alberto Ponce to organize the testimonies not chronologically, but thematically, dealing with questions such as child theft, property appropriation, torture, shootings, "death flights" and the web of lies and silences that surrounded the repressive apparatus."The idea was not to make a short version of the trial, but to use that material to tell the story of what, I interpret, happened in the courtroom, trying not to leave out any of the big themes," De la Orden concluded.
Both documentaries, like the fictional film Argentina, 1985, became fundamental to understanding the legal, political and human dimension of the Junta Trial and, as Rodríguez Arias points out, to preserve the memory of a process that was described by the national and international press after Alfonserín's death as the "Nuremberg of Argentina".
[Photos: Courtesy of 'The Argentinian Nuremberg' and 'The Judgment' Newspapers]
