Banned by Luis Echeverria, the documentary is a fierce criticism to Mexico, the Frozen Revolution opens with 36 years behind the foreign look on the student repression and Southeast is a semi Blanche Petrich Image Zoom Raymundo Gleyzer documentary that after review of the Mexican Revolution came to the southeast of the country never before exhibited in Mexico, the documentary Mexico, the Frozen Revolution, made in 1970 by Argentine filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer kidnapped and disappeared by the dictatorship of his country in 1976, begins with images of the paraphernalia PRI in the presidential campaign that was powerful interior minister, Luis Echeverría. In the period between the massacre of Tlatelolco (1968) and the Thursday of Corpus (1971), records the decline of the "institutional revolution" of the PRI in its fifth decade of power, runs the impoverished Southeast and concludes with the seal Blood of October 2, 1968. The movie, bolstered by Echeverria, who had been flattered by the interest of the team of "German TV" who approached him when he tried to rebuild its tarnished international image, was premiered in Buenos Aires in 1971. The impact of the documentary reached the pages of newspapers in Buenos Aires. Those images of the fallen on 2 October, "when one afternoon the Mexican government sent 400 students to kill" stories of modern slaves of the henequen haciendas, a gangster CTM had never been exhibited in this context in South America. There was praise for the "revolution made institution" that the Mexican regime hoped it was the fierce criticism of an ideal betrayed.
The film angered Echeverria, who through his ambassador in Buenos Aires and got called for a ban on the film. The work of Raymundo Gleyzer lasted only one day in theaters. Canned since then, this Wednesday, February 13 after 36 years out of the freezer to reach cinemas hosting the 2007 Tour Documentary Ambulante. Gleyzer, film activist, recognized by the new generation of filmmakers as "the father of cinema picket" was fruitful stage in front of the camera, the driver of documentary understood as "a weapon for the socialist revolution." Today, the people of Argentina celebrates theater in his honor Documentalist Day on 27 May, the date of his kidnapping. Persona non grata in Mexico at the time, Echeverria declared him persona non grata. But today, his widow Juana Sapire, who worked as an assistant sound engineer in many of its productions, is in Mexico promoting the film banned. "For people like Raymond dies, but does not disappear, he's here again, in the order."
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