• Sep 01, 2003
  • 59 min
  • Full-HD

Death Squads: The French School (2003)

After the Battle of Algiers, France and its army exported, as true experts, anti-subversive methods to Latin America and the United States in the 1960s. After more than a year of investigation in Argentina , in Chile, Brazil, the United States and France, the director collected, sometimes under the cover of a hidden camera, recorded conversations, the exclusive testimonies of the main protagonists. From General Aussaresses to former Minister of the Armed Forces Pierre Messmer, including General Reynaldo Bignone (head of the military junta in Argentina from 1982 to 1984), General Albano Harguindéguy, General Manuel Contreras, and Generals John Johns and Carl Bernard, this investigation gives us a hidden reality of the country of Human Rights.

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Canada France Italy Switzerland
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ARTE SODEC Productions Thalie WDR RTS Libérations Films ONF | NFB

Anibal Acosta

Alcides Lopez Aufranc

Carl Bernard

Michel Besineau

Manuel Contreras

Self

Paul Teitgen

Self

Pierre Messmer

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Julia Urien-Cartailler

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