Ácratas
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- 6 June 2000
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| Directed by | Virginia Martínez |
| Written by | Virginia Martínez |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Uruguay |
| Language | Spanish |
Ácratas (meaning "Anarchists") 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.
It has received critical acclaim for its comprehensive documentation, and for the way its construction captivates the attention of the viewer, reinforcing the impact of the film. The film, long esteemed by cinephiles in Buenos Aires, also received recognition, winning First Prize for Documentary at the Festival del Cinema Latinoamericano di Trieste, and the second prize at the Festival "Contra el silencio todas las voces" of Mexico (both in 2000).[1]
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. The sources of such documentation, including the archive material and Sodre Caruso, are credited at the film's end.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
