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La Noche de los Lapices (The Night of the Pencils)

Argentine film (1hr 35mins) directed by Hector Olivera. Showing events in September 1976, in La Plata, Argentina, when a number of secondary school students, most of them less than 18 years old, were kidnapped and murdered by security forces in one of the most notorious actions of the military dictatorship.

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Video: Aries Films, Argentina (in Spanish, with English subtitles) 1986.

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