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For one thing, it’s a true story, culled from the real-life experiences of the three featured prisoners, who at the time of their capture were members of Uruguay’s radical, trade...
A Twelve-Year Night. A Twelve-Year Night ( Spanish: La noche de 12 años) is a 2018 drama film directed by Álvaro Brechner. [3] It premiered in Official Selection at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, and it was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
- $347,908
- Federico Jusid
Nov 9, 2018 · November 9, 2018. — Rocio Ayuso. At first sight, La noche de 12 años ( A Twelve-Year Night) could pass as a story of survival. The real story of three political prisoners in Uruguay who, in 1972, were taken from their prison cells in a secret military operation that lasted twelve years.
Dec 28, 2018 · With Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso. 1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
- Álvaro Brechner
- 2 min
A twelve-year night is, above all, a descent into the abyss. Based on a true story, it shows how three men were gradually dispossessed of everything that made them individuals over 12 years. They endured a physical and mental process designed to drive them insane with the ultimate goal of destroying any resistance within their deepest selves.
Dec 28, 2018 · More than perhaps anything else, it’s a horror story. It’s also a true story, one plucked from recent history (not unlike Netflix’s documentary Two Catalonias ), which gives its political framework a scarier contour and its human undercurrent more power.
Dec 28, 2018 · Based on a true story, A Twelve Year Night is a beautifully constructed, harrowing tale about three prisoners forced into solitary confinement for 12 years. With slick camera work, shocking torture scenes and a methodically paced plot, this foreign drama makes for quite the absorbing watch.
