El círculo las vidas de Henry Engler /
An impressive portrait of Henry Engler, a former Uruguayan guerillero (Tupamaro). During the Uruguayan dictatorship Engler was imprisoned for thirteen years because of his leftish ideas towards the government. After his release he fled to Sweden where he currently lives and works. Torture and repres...
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| Language: | Spanish English |
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Montevideo :
BuenCine Producciones : Guazú Media,
2008
[Montevideo, Uruguay] : BuenCine Producciones, 2008 |
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| Summary: | An impressive portrait of Henry Engler, a former Uruguayan guerillero (Tupamaro). During the Uruguayan dictatorship Engler was imprisoned for thirteen years because of his leftish ideas towards the government. After his release he fled to Sweden where he currently lives and works. Torture and repression during his years of imprisonment have left scars. We see him retracing his steps to the places of his Uruguayan past, which is frequently painful and confrontational both for him as well as for the audience This is the story of Henry Engler, a medical student in Uruguay in the 1970s, who got involved in the MLN Tupamaros guerrilla movement, became one of its high-rank leaders, was caught and spent 13 years in prison, 11 of them in complete isolation. In 1985 he was released among hundreds of political prisoners, self-exiled to Sweden where he could finish his studies and became a prominent neurologist, leading state-of-the-art research about Alzheimer disease. The filmmakers follow him in his comeback to Uruguay, his public appearances, his re-encounter with former militants of the movement, his re-visiting of the barracks where he was held prisoner |
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| Item Description: | Also known under the English title, The Circle Latin American and Iberian videos in Princeton University Library |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc ( 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Format: | DVD ; playable in all regions DVD |