The film was filmed in 2017, when Mora was 8 years old, and that did not prevent her from shining in the film, in which she exhibits her expressiveness and reflects the absences of her grandparents Gustavo García Cappannini, and Matilde “Tili” Itzigsohn, both detained and disappeared. during the last civic military dictatorship.
That loss in the bosom of her family motivated her to accompany her mother Lucía to all the marches on March 24 and generated a militant sense that made it possible for the kindergarten that Mora attended to bear her grandmother’s name today.
“I would like that Clara Anahí could be found, that the film had a memory message. There are many suitable grandchildren to be found and I would love to be able to find Clara Anahí through the film,” Mora said in dialogue with Télam.
Clara Anahí Mariani was stolen from “La Casa de los Conejos” where she lived with her mother Diana Teruggi and Daniel Mariani.
La Niña was tirelessly searched by her grandmother María Isabel “Chicha” Mariani, until her death in 2018, a task that still continues on the part of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo association.
The house that gives the film its name was located on streets 30 between 55 and 56 of La Plata and there, behind the facade of a rabbit breeding venture, the newspaper “Evita Montonera” was printed, a publication through which had begun to denounce the kidnappings, torture and crimes of the dictatorship.
In that house lived the writer Laura Alcoba, daughter of Montoneros militants, who wrote a book – which inspired the title of the film – in which the strategies of silence and secrecy that her parents instilled in her to preserve her from the apparatus of illegal repression of state terrorism.
“My father and mother hide newspapers and weapons up there, but I must not say anything. People do not know that we, only us, have been forced to go to war”, can be read in one of the paragraphs of the book “The House of Rabbits”.
After the casting from which she was chosen to be the girl in the film “The House of Rabbits”, by director Valeria Selinger, Mora had to read the book with her parents Lucía García Itzigsohn and Luis Iramain.
“I really wanted to act in that story because I felt it was related to my story, that I have my grandparents missing,” explained the young actress, who met Laura Alcoba during her trip to the city of La Plata.
Mora reflected that the protagonist of the film “is an 8-year-old girl who always had to be quiet, she could hardly leave the house, or if she went out she had to be very attentive.”
“I think that at the end of the day I was looking for a way to have fun in the face of all that I was experiencing. I wanted to do what she (the author) liked. In any scenario I am going to have fun, I am going to find a way to have fun.”
Sitting at the distance of a hug is Lucía, who listens with attentive admiration to her daughter elaborating on that childlike gaze that impacts so much in that context of dictatorship that the book and the film reflect; and he also brings to this agency the feeling of someone who the dictatorship left without mom and dad.
“I was two years old, I do not have the proper and conscious memory of my old men and their companions (of militancy). I was little. What I do recognize from the story is that of silence and having to construct many answers because adults do not They will answer you, “he recalled.
And he added: “Another thing that resonates with me is that when I was little, they told me that I went with my mother to a square or public space. She made me call her ‘Chola’ so that our bond would not be discovered and I would not take risks”
Lucía said that some sons or daughters of the disappeared have some kind of claim to the militancy of their parents that took them away from them, but in her case she assured that “I was always clear on where the responsibility lay” for the consequences left by the illegal repression.
The woman recognized how “transformative” her militancy was in Hijos, the group that brings together the sons and daughters of the disappeared to demand justice, a space in which she began to understand “in collective terms” the wounds left by crimes of the dictatorship .
Far from questioning her mother Matilde, Lucía follows the perspective set by that woman, a union delegate from Astilleros Río Santiago (ARS), where she promoted the creation of a nursery for women workers, who disappeared on March 16, 1977 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almagro.
Today Lucía is the Provincial Director of Communication Planning and Management of the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires.
Lucia and Mora share looks of love and mutual admiration. The young actress said that she learned from her mother to “tell when something is wrong so that it can be changed.”
“I also remember that once I was in a march for March 24, very angry because I did not understand why I could not have my grandparents, why they had been taken from me in such an unfair way, I said: ‘I want them all to die the military ‘, she told me’ no, it’s not like that, you don’t have to pay the same, you have to do the right thing, you have to go to jail, that’s your penalty, ‘”Mora recalled and looked at her mother, that her eyes were full of tears.
Lucía expressed full of emotion that being the mother of Mora and de León, her eldest son who also acts in the film, allowed her “to build a bond between mother and daughter that I did not have.”
“I had references of a grandmother who took great care of me, but I did not have that figure, that role. And I built it by being able to run away from the mandates, I was able to raise them with, I do not know if it is the word, with more freedom or creatively. I am learning with them. And with Mora, as an actress she is a discovery, I am surprised to see her there (in the film) “, said the daughter of” Tili “Itzigsohn.
The film was filmed when Mora was 8 years old, for 5 weeks in 2017 and had the approval of “Chicha” Mariani, who did not get to see scenes filmed but knew and was enthusiastic about the project and that Mora was the girl from “The House of Rabbits”.
“When we testify before the courts, we tell what we knew about the disappearances of our parents, but we do not testify about the damage that these disappearances meant for us as boys and girls. Damages and violations of children’s rights are not judged. “he mused.
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