Anarchists

Anarchists (2000)

Ácratas

Armed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.

Date of release
2000-06-06
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Virginia Martínez

Interesting facts

Ácratas is a 2000 Uruguayan documentary film. It was written and directed by Virginia Martínez, and premiered in Argentina in 2004. The film is about anarchism in Uruguay, and gives controversial insight into the minority and indigenous movement within the libertarian movement of the 1930s.

Production

This self-financed independent documentary is based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, families, and historians; the narrative follows the "anarchists expropriators" in the Rio de la Plata, specifically in the first third of the twentieth century. It incorporates extensive research conducted in Ushuaia, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Barcelona.

This was in part brought about by Osvaldo Bayer, anarchist historian, who has written about anarchists expropriators, Abel Paz, historian of the Spanish revolution, and incorporates recordings of Italian-Uruguayan intellectual Luce Fabbri.

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