Movie: The Blow: Chronicle of a Conspiracy

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Gastón Pauls
Gastón Pauls

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    El golpe: crónica de una conspiración

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    Argentina, 1973. The return of democracy marks the beginning of a new countdown to the next coup d'état: on March 24, 1976, the worst dictatorship in Argentine history is installed, the bitter fruit of a plot carefully hatched for months.

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    2006-03-24

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