If it Please the Court

If it Please the CourtMOVIE
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If it Please the Court

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre.

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial of Judge Baltasar Garzon, for investigating the forced disappearances of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. Juxtaposing the testimonies of the relatives of those who lost loved ones with references to Argentina’s and Chile’s recent dictatorships, this film explores issues around international law and forced disappearance - tracing a line between Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and Jorge Videla’s Military Junta: Garzón has investigated Argentine torturers and criminal perpetrators and had Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 for crimes against humanity.

Original Title

Con la venia

Release Date

2022-05-25

Year

2022

Duration

56m

Status

Released

Score

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Genres

Production

#franco-regime-(francoism)#courtroom#history#theater

Cast

Walter Jakob

Walter Jakob

Luciana Acuña

Luciana Acuña

Elisa Carricajo

Elisa Carricajo

Laura Paredes

Laura Paredes

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Raúl Quirós Molina

Mark Lockyer

Mark Lockyer