Los Presos de Bragado(1999)

剧情简介

In the year 1931, some months after General Uriburu s coup d etat in Argentina, the conservaine caudillo of Bragado, province of Buenos Aires, José María Blanch is sent a crate of apples, which contains a bomb, which causes the death of his daughter, María Enriqueta Blanch, and his sister-in-law, Paula Arroubarrena. Three anarchist workers, Pascual Vuotto, Reclus de Diago, y Santiago Mainini are accused of the bombing. After having been tourtured in the Bragado police Station and forced to sign declarations imprisonment. They remain in jail for eleven years throughout which a solidarity campaign is organized in the entire country with the participation of anarchist, socialist, communist, and meetings are organized and the newspaper “Justicia” is published to broardcast the plight of the prisioners. . The case is known as the argentine Sacco y Vanzetti trial. On the 24 of July , 1942 Vuotto, mainni, y de Diago are released through a conmutation of sentence signed by governor Rodolfo Moreno of the province of Buenos Aires. In July of 1993 a law is approved by the National Congress which declares the prisioner innocenty, the sentence unjust, and calls for the cleansing of the memory ofthe victims.