Death Squads: The French School

2003 9.0 (2 votes) 0h 59m

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Documentary History Drama

Production Companies

ARTE
SODEC
Productions Thalie
WDR
RTS
Libérations Films
ONF | NFB

Death Squads: The French School (Escadrons De La Mort : L'École Française)

Overview

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.