Evita (The Documentary)

Evita is a documentary on the life of Eva Duarte created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley.^[1] Conformed in its entirety with previously unseen historical footage and documents, the film reconstructs the life of former Argentine first lady from an unbiased perspective. The film starts with a meticulous background of Evita’s origins, the relationship with her parents (particularly that with her father) and siblings. Evita goes on to reveal intimate aspects of the protagonist early childhood and adolescence leading to her determination to flee from the countryside the capital city of Buenos Aires. Worth noticing on this last period are the interviews with former teachers of Evita’s elementary schooling in Junin, in Buenos Aires’s province. Throughout the film the director is constantly reminding the audience of the domestic and international context which greatly helps in understanding the facts. The second act of this documentary concludes with the funerals of the First Lady in Buenos Aires, but the film goes beyond this point yet into a third act exposing the macabre plot to have Evita’s corpse disappear and the curious series of events leading to the exchange of cadavers between the so called Peronist youth and the military regime.

Film Festivals

"Evita" was screened at the Virginia Film Festival, in Charlottesville, on November 4, 2011. ^[2][3]

Billing Block

PATAGONIA FILM GROUP presents "EVITA" a film by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY edited by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY and EMILIANO SERRA produced by SOLEDAD LIENDO written and directed by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY

References

External links

• Evita: The Documentary at the Internet Movie Database