Benjamin Naishtat on Rojo and the disappeared of Argentina
Director Benjamin Naishtat spoke to Socialist Review about his new film Rojo and Argentina in the 1970s and now.
What inspired you to make this film now?
I wanted to make a film about the 1970s, but frankly there were already many films about those years and about the “desaparecidos” [disappeared], the torture and the political activism against all of this. I discovered, however, that there were not films about the silent majority of Argentinians that went through these times either without doing any political activity at all or being accomplices of the regime.