Raymundo Gleyzer

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Raymundo Gleyzer

Born September 25, 1941 · Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Died May 27, 1976 · aged 34

Raymundo Gleyzer was an Argentine film critic, director and activist. He specialized in documentaries and untiringly worked for making films that showed the world the adversities that Latin American people faced. Along with other activists and filmmakers, he created the group "Cine de la Base". Using the camera as a combat weapon, they had to work clandestinely. He was kidnapped and disappeared b…

Known For

The TraitorsThe Traitors · 1973
The Traitors
7.41973
MovieDrama
Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.
El cicloEl ciclo · 1963
El ciclo
1963
Movie
PescadoresPescadores · 1969
Pescadores
1969
MovieDocumentary
A survey on the economic exploitation of Paraná fishermen.
Mexico: The Frozen RevolutionMexico: The Frozen Revolution · 1973
Mexico: The Frozen Revolution
6.61973
MovieDocumentary
A thorough analysis of the socio-politics of Mexico, within the historical context of the Mexican Revolution reality. Includes footage from the 1910s, interviews with farmers, politicians, intellectuals, middle class, union, etc, as well as scenes from the life of an Indian family in Chiapas, their religious rituals, their crops, trials and bilingual schools. The film ends with the slaughter in the Plaza de Tlatelolco in 1968, during the infamous Olympics.
El búhoEl búho · 1983
El búho
10.01983
MovieDrama
Swift, 1971Swift, 1971 · 1971
Swift, 1971
5.81971
MovieDocumentary
The Popular Revolutionary Army (ERP) was a military unit of an Argentine political party, looking up to Mao's cultural revolution as its model. Its way of fighting involved kidnappings and assassinations of government officials as well as representatives of foreign firms. The crusade of the military junta against its terrorist practices later became a pretext for state terror against civilians who had nothing to do with ERP. Gleyzer's so-called "secret film" records the kidnapping of a manager of the meat processing factory and cooling plant Swift. The partisans request an improvement in the working conditions in the factory in exchange for his release.
QuilinoQuilino · 1966
Quilino
8.01966
MovieDocumentary
Gleyzer’s first color film was his final collaboration with his old classmate Jorge Prelorán, who preferred a less polemical approach to documenting poverty. QUILINO details the Cordoba villagers’ reliance on the railroad that brings them customers from the cities, and the looming likelihood that the route will be shut down.
They Kill Me If I Don't Work and If I Work They Kill MeThey Kill Me If I Don't Work and If I Work They Kill Me · 1974
They Kill Me If I Don't Work and If I Work They Kill Me
9.81974
MovieDocumentary
Documentary on the situation of INSUD factory metalworkers, who, because of lead and poor working conditions, suffer from sickness and death by lead poisoning.

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