If it Please the Court

Synopsis

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial of Judge Baltasar Garzon, for investigating the forced disappearances of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. Juxtaposing the testimonies of the relatives of those who lost loved ones with references to Argentina’s and Chile’s recent dictatorships, this film explores issues around international law and forced disappearance - tracing a line between Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and Jorge Videla’s Military Junta: Garzón has investigated Argentine torturers and criminal perpetrators and had Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 for crimes against humanity.

Main Cast

Walter Jakob

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Luciana Acuña

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Elisa Carricajo

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Laura Paredes

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Raúl Quirós Molina

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Mark Lockyer

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Alejo Moguillansky
Writing	Writer	María Delgado Cecilia Sosa
Production	Producer	Laura Citarella María Delgado Bryce Lease
	Production Manager	Ingrid Pokropek
Editing	Editor	Alejo Moguillansky
	Assistant Editor	Ignacio Codino
Camera	Additional Photography	Agustín Mendilaharzu
Sound	Sound Recordist	Tomás Guiñazú
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