Raymundo Gleyzer

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Raymundo Gleyzer (born September 25, 1941 in Buenos Aires ; missing since May 27, 1976 ) was an Argentine political filmmaker . As a member of the opposition , he was kidnapped and most likely murdered by the military dictatorship of the time , which killed up to 30,000 people.

life and work

Illustration by the Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff as a "tribute to the missing documentary filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer and to all the missing victims of the US-backed right-wing dictatorships in South America"

Born into a Jewish family, Gleyzer became interested in politics and film from an early age . He put all of his films at the service of the fight against social injustice and for the revolution .

He shot his first film in the backward northeast of Brazil , where he barely escaped with his life. In the early 1970s he made a film in Mexico about the so-called “ institutionalized revolution ” of the state party PRI. The film was initially banned in Argentina, but found a lively response among students in Mexico. In 1973 he and others founded the group Cine de la Base , which organized screenings and discussions with workers outside the cinema.

His last major film, Los traidores , is his critique of the Peronism political movement, which was very important in Argentina at the time . It shows how union officials had allied themselves with entrepreneurs, the military and the USA in order to maintain their personal position of power and to enrich themselves .

On May 27, 1976, Gleyzer was kidnapped, tortured and never seen again by a death squad of the military government that had come to power two months earlier . He is one of the tens of thousands of " Desaparecidos " ( disappeared ) of the Argentine military dictatorship of the time , most of whom were secretly murdered. The Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff created a cartoon that he dedicated to Gleyzer and the people of Latin America who "disappeared" by force .

Filmography

  • 1963: La tierra quema Doc
  • 1965: Ceramiqueros de tras la tierra Doc
  • 1966: Occurido en hualfin Doc 3 parts: I: Quando quede en silencio el viento (When the wind is silent), II: Greda (clay), III: Elinda del Valle. Parts I and II in 35 mm black / white, part III in 16 mm color. Total length 45 minutes.
  • 1966: Nuestras islas Malvinas Doc
  • 1969: Documentary about Cuba.
  • 1971: Comunicados Swift CM Doc
  • 1971: México, la revolución congelada LM doc, 16 mm, color, length 60 min.
  • 1972: Ni olvido ni perdón Doc
  • 1973: Los traidores (The Traitors), feature film about a corrupt union official. 16 mm, color. First performance July 1, 1973, International Forum of New Films, Berlin.
  • 1975: Me matan si no trabajo y si trabajo me matan.Doc

documentary

  • Raymundo. Documentary about Raymundo Gleyzer. Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina 2003.

literature

  • Fernando Pena, Carlos Vallina: El Cine quema - Raymundo Gleyzer. Ediciones de la Flo, Buenos Aires 2000. ISBN 9505152477
  • Distribution catalogs of the "Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek eV" 1970: Occurido en Hualfin. 1972/73: (new) Mexico - La revolucion congelada. 1973/74: (new) Los Traidores (The Traitors).
  • Information sheet from number 32, "International Forum for Young Films", Berlin, June 24 - July 1, 1973; Editor: Peter B. Schumann

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at findagrave.com , accessed on May 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Gleyzer, Raymundo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine political filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH after May 27, 1976