trailer HANDS IN THE EARTH, a documentary film by Virginia Martínez

For the first time in the history of Uruguay, a group of archaeologists from the University of the Republic go to work in an army barracks. Their mission is to find the remains of people who were detained or "disappeared" during the military dictatorship.
The Commanders in Chief of the three armed forces give the President a report with information from their own internal investigation. The families of the disappeared have their own list. The whole country follows these events closely, and there is full television coverage. The digging begins.
But no bodies are found, which seems to contradict the dictum that when a crime is committed the difficult thing is not the actual crime but to leave no clues.
At last, after a hundred days of digging, the soil yields up a secret and the first remains are unearthed. A few days later someone writes on a wall in Montevideo: "Ubagesner Chávez Sosa, the first ex-detained-disappeared."
This documentary is an archaeological thriller that reconstructs the whole saga of the digging, which was a milestone in the country's history.
The film is a very open chronicle that uses a variety of voices, all of them essential, to tell a complex story.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary
• disappeared
• uruguay
• virginia martinez
• las manos en la tierra
• hands in the earth

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Emisión en Uruguay:

TNU - sábado 21 de agosto 20 hrs. y sábado 28 de agosto 00:30 hrs.

tevé CIUDAD - domingo 22 de agosto 21:30 hrs. y jueves 26 de agosto 20:30 hrs

Emisión en Argentina:

canal Encuentro - sábado 21 de agosto a las 20 hs. y miércoles 25 a las 16 hs.

canal 7 - próximamente

Emisión en México:

canal 22 - martes 17 de agosto a las 22 hs. y viernes 20 a las 18 hs.

Emisión en Ecuador:

Ecuador TV - miércoles 18 de agosto a las 22 hs. y el sábado 21 a las 22 hs.