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1990 · 92 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.

Directed by Pablo Perelman · Written by Pablo Perelman

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