Cine de la Base

Short about the disappearance of the body of the political Argentinean writer Rodolfo Walsh after he was shot in an ambush by a special military group in Argentinia on March 25 1977.

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.

Documentary on the situation of INSUD factory metalworkers, who, because of lead and poor working conditions, suffer from sickness and death by lead poisoning.

On August 15, 1972, during the dictatorial government of General Lanusse, twenty political prisoners belonging to the PRT- ERP, FAR and Montoneros, escaped from Rawson prison in the Patagonian province of Chubut.

Short that relates how members of the ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo) carried out an spectacular blow by entering the vault of the national bank (Banco Nacional de Desarrollo) thanks to the collaboration of two sympathizers of the group.

An interview of Luis Mattini, general secretary of the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), and Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, member of the political bureau of PRT and commander of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), is the basis of this short documentary completed in Rome in 1978. Archive images accompany the voices of the guerrilla militants who denounce the crimes perpetrated by the Videla dictatorship and they present an overview of militant and political organization against the forces of imperialism.