In ‘Under The Flags, The Sun’ A Filmmaker Probes Archives To Expose Paraguay’s Dictator – Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival
deadline.comA giant statue of Paraguay’s dictator, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, used to dominate the capital city of Asunción. Now, all that remains at the site are his steel boots.
Stroessner’s monumental likeness was cut off at the ankles after he was deposed in 1989 following almost 35 years of military rule. “It’s crazy.
It’s still there,” comments filmmaker Juanjo Pereira. “It’s still there and will be there for many years.” The people, celebrating Stroessner’s downfall, severed the head, torso and the legs of the statue.
Yet, the base remains – the foundation. Perhaps that symbolism is most critical to understand from Pereira’s new documentary Under the Flags, the Sun, which played at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece Monday night.
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