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Figli -
Hijos by the Italo-Argentinian director Marco
Bechis. A woman gives birth, as two men wait outside to
take her child from her. The woman has twins, the
midwife manages to hide the baby girl in a
bag. The boy is adopted by the murderers of
his mother (this was common practise in Argentina
under the military dictatorship of the 'junta' lead
by Videla). In Milan twenty years later, Javier, the male
twin, lives totally unaware of past events.
Pampered by his comfortable life as part of a
wealthy family, he lives a normal life without a
care in the world. One day his sister Rosa arrives
in Italy. After desperately searching for him all
her life, she finally tracked him down via e-mail
and now wants to tell him the truth. Javier refuses
to believe her, yet the seed of doubt tortures him
and his life will never be the same again. The documentary-style ending, taken from footage
of an actual demonstration organized by the
H.I.J.O.S. association from which the film
takes its name, brings us back to present-day
reality and the drama currently lived by the
children of the desaparecidos. Also in the Netherlands live many Argentineans
who fled from the junta regime and there have also
been Argentinean Tango dancers visiting, dancing
and teaching in the Netherlands. Link: The father of prinses
Máxima of the Netherlands, Jorge
Zorreguieta, who is now a regular
guest of the royal family of the Netherland
was secretary of
Agriculture during the military dictatorship of
convicted criminal Jorge Videla. Read about In a televised interview before her wedding with
the dutch crown prince, Máxima Zorreguieta
said she believed her father when he said he knew
only about 3 missing people (in the time he served
the junta) "and they had all come back" and she was
sorry 'he had done his best for a wrong regime'.
For the majority of the dutch people this appeared
to be enough to accept her as future queen and her
father as a guest of our royals. There were about 3000 desaparacidos, missing,
under the regime of Videla, for whom this guest of
our royal family had done 'his best'. |
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