30 Nov 2023
Stunts: A Taste for Risk
The amazing story of stunts, men and women who risk their lives every day on set to get the perfect action scene.
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Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence.
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Nina Gilmizyanova Narrator (voice)
Juan Domingo Perón Self - Politician (archive footage)
Juan Carlos Onganía Self - Politician (archive footage)
Isabel Sarli Self - Actress (voice) (archive footage)
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