When the colonels enter the courtroom, they clearly think they are in the clear. A military court has spent a year deciding that whatever excesses the Argentinian police, army and whoever else might have committed, these gentlemen were not down in the muck where these things happened, whatever “these things” were.
One by one, they rise to announce that, as military men, they do not recognize the authority of the civil court. They are holding back smirks.
Perhaps they think they will be free of this nonsense by lunchtime. Santiago Mitre’s exceptional Venice Film Festival competition political thriller Argentina 1985 pieces together what happened when the fledgling democracy’s justice department was charged with prosecuting nine members of the former junta.
Under military rule, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, it was estimated that 30,000 people “disappeared.” Many who did not disappear had survived rape, torture and internment in unspeakable concentration camps.
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