Perón and the Jews
Synopsis
After his father is accused of having been “another gorilla Jew” in the 1950s (a reactionary who supported the 1955 military coup that deposed the democratically elected government of Juan Perón), Sergio Shlomo Slutzky decides to go out and investigate his father’s supposed DNA and discovers a young Jewish generation full of humanistic idealism. In this journey, he reaches out to friends from his father’s youth during the Perón presidency, to historians and researchers and other witnesses in Argentina and Israel. The journey was not only a personal quest, but also focused on the political rift that continues to divide Argentinian society and on what it is like to belong to a Jewish minority outside of Israel.
Credits
Director(s)
Sergio (Shlomo) Slutzky
Producer(s)
Javier Diaz, Sergio (Shlomo) Slutzky
Script
Malen Azzam, Sergio (Shlomo) Slutzky
Cinematography
Tomer Slutzky, Ezequiel Simone
Editor
Emiliano Serra
Original Language
Spanish, Hebrew
Subtitles
English
Festival Highlights
Ibero-Latin American Cinema Festival, Italy, 2021
Miami JFF, USA, Competition, 2021
Gainesville JFF, USA, 2022
Sao Paulo JFF, Brazil, 2022
Reviews
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"Intersection between the micro and macro, between the national history and family stories, this is the uniqueness, most solid and potent of Slutzky’s work"
- Fun Cinema
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"An extremely accomplished documentary narrated with the agility of a suspense film with touches of irony"
- La Capital
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"Perón and the Jews” allows to shatter the binary thinking around the figure of Perón"
- Solo Fui Al Cine
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"Shocking archival materials…including images from the Pro-Nazi rally in Buenos Aires on October 4, 1938"
- Clarin
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"A rich range of testimonies which enables the viewer to reconsider historical events and manipulations that marked a key era in Argentina"
- Tiempo Argentino
