Night of the Pencils (film)
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| Directed by | Héctor Olivera |
| Produced by |
Fernando Ayala Alejandro Sessa |
| Screenplay by | Héctor Olivera Daniel Kon |
| Based on |
La noche de los lápices by María Seoane & Héctor Ruiz Núñez |
| Starring |
Alejo García Pintos Vita Escardó Pablo Novak Adriana Salonia Pablo Machado Leonardo Sbaraglia |
| Music by | José Luis Castiñeira de Dios |
| Cinematography | Leonardo Rodríguez Solís |
| Edited by | Miguel López |
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Aries Cinematográfica Argentina
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| Distributed by | Aries Cinematográfica Argentina |
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Night of the Pencils (Spanish: La noche de los lápices) is a 1986 Argentine historical drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and written by Olivera and Daniel Kon. It is based on the non-fiction book by María Seoane and Héctor Ruiz Núñez. It stars Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Leonardo Sbaraglia, José María Monje, Pablo Machado, Adriana Salonia and Héctor Bidonde.
The film, based on the actual events recorded in history as the "Night of the pencils" (La noche de los lápices), tells the story of seven students who, after protesting for lower bus fares in the city of La Plata, were abducted in September 1976, during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976 - 1983), and subsequently disappeared. Only one student survived to tell what happened.
During a time of economic and political unrest and State-sponsored terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s, the students want reduced bus fares, so they take to the streets and protest in support of the boleto estudiantil: the students' ticket. At first, under Isabel Martínez de Perón's government they succeed, but their protests draw hostile attention from the ensuing military regime led by Jorge Rafael Videla, which overthrows Perón on March 24, 1976.
The dictatorship announces that the "leftist agitators" will not be tolerated by the new "government". The increasing violent crackdown on student gatherings is demonstrated when the police break up a school dance brandishing guns. On September 16, six students of the city of La Plata are kidnapped in the middle of the night, and the police claims ignorance about their whereabouts. This is the actual event that will later be called "Night of the Pencils".
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