Cinemateca Uruguaya

This is the story of Luis Batlle Berres, an outstanding political figure, told against the background of life in Uruguay from 1900 to the 1960s. With archive images and music from the period, this documentary pays homage to those years and to a time gone by. There is testimony from Batlle's personal hairdresser, his master of arms, his children and travelling companions in politics, and his adversaries. We witness his meeting with General Juan Domingo Perón, and we see the Graf Zeppelin with its swastika in the sky above Montevideo.

This is an account of the years of the dictatorship in Uruguay, told with archive material and interviews with witnesses who remain anonymous. There is a focus on the 1984 elections and the euphoric festivities afterwards, as the people celebrated not so much the winner of the election as the end of the dictatorship and the start of the campaign for truth and justice.

Chile and the 1988 plebiscite Film belonging to CEMA. The migration to digital was carried out within the framework of the "Rescue of the CEMA archive" project financed by ICAU and with the collaboration of FIC-Udelar in 2010. The U-matic cassette is in custody by the Audiovisual Preservation Laboratory (LAPA-AGU-Udelar)