Marco Bechis
Argentina/Italy
1999
Italian version
sbt. French
98'

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GARAGE OLIMPO

Argentina, 1978, under the general Videla dictatorship and during the World Soccer Championships. Eighteen-year-old Maria, a «militant» schoolteacher in a slum area, lives with her French-born mother Diane in an old house. Money problems have induced her mother to rent out rooms, one of which is occupied by Felix, who says he works as a night watchman in a garage and who is shyly in love with Maria. One day Maria is arrested and illegally imprisoned in the clandestine detention center called “Garage Olimpo” where she discovers that one of her jailers, who handles interrogation under torture, is Felix. With his help Maria escapes the periodic elimination of the prisoners no longer considered “useful”, who are led to believe they will be transferred to regular prisons but are actually thrown into the Rio de la Plata or the ocean. But the new head torturer discovers everything.

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