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“It's hard to make a passionate film about average Joes that can cause viewers' pulses to race, but Fernando E. Solanas's exhilarating docu THE DIGNITY OF THE NOBODIES proves it can be done” (Deborah Young, Variety ). Solanas, veteran director of the legendary Sixties film THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES (1966), offers an ongoing, emotionally wrenching survey of the Argentinean underclass. Shot over the course of several years, DIGNITY employs an anecdotal structure, introducing us to a cross-section of oppressed “nobodies” who have borne the brunt of economic policies catering to multinational corporations, but who battle back to secure their rights. The daunting obstacles faced by the film's subjects are shocking and appalling, ranging from outright neglect to violent persecution. But where other filmmakers would have found nothing but the disheartening, insurmountable lessons of poverty, Solanas reveals the intelligence, courage, and staggering perseverance of these blue collar workers, farmers and indigenous people, thus doing justice to his subject matter, and to the dignity of these still unbowed nobodies. “Radical! A searing documentary chronicling Argentina's political plunder and its human costs” (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice ).
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