It will be a four-episode docuseries with exclusive interviews with protagonists of that time such as the player Mario Kempes, the coach César Menotti, the Montonero leader Mario Firmenich and the ESMA survivor, Miriam Lewin.
The Disney+ platform published this Wednesday the trailer for Argentina 78a docuseries about the soccer world cup organized in 1978 by the last dictatorshipan occasion where the country won its first star at the same time that illegal repression was deployed throughout the territory.
“A country that won and lost at the same time”states the post spread by the multinational Disney platform. The docuseries will premiere next November 27 and will review the different facets of the 1978 Argentina World Cup. From the joy of winning the cup and the context of repression that was experienced at that time.
The documentary has archival material and interviews with protagonists of the time. Among some of the people who appear in the trailer are the then leader of Montoneros, Mario Firmenich, the coach who led the champion team, César Menotti, and Miriam Lewin, a political activist who was kidnapped in the ESMA clandestine center.
Documentary details
Argentina 78 will have four episodes in docuseries format where “football, horror and political intrigue intermingle to achieve a unique and unrepeatable story,” Disney+ reported in a statement.
Among the new features are the exclusive interview with Firmenich and little-known footage of the Montoneros organization. where they denounced the repression and political use of the World Cup made by the dictatorship.
It also counts extraordinary archival material with images of the daily life of the time, the fervor of the fans in the midst of the denunciations of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to foreign journalists such as the Dutch Jan Van Der Putten, interviewed for the docuseries.
To reconstruct moments from the time, you can see in the trailer that resorting to fictional scenes filmed especially for Argentina 78.
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