Night of the Pencils
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
Héctor Olivera
Casts & Crew
Alejo Garcia Pintos
Vita Escardó
Pablo Novak
Leonardo Sbaraglia
José María Monje
Pablo Machado
Adriana Salonia
David Gerber
Marcelo Serre
Walter Peña
Daniel San Joaquín
Demián Celentano
Mariana Cedon
Diego Korol
Gustavo Tieffenberg
María Celina Bedini
Carlos Lazzarini
Cecilia Liébana
Ana Celentano
Gabriel Meyer
Jorge Mastropietro
Matías Ruiz
Matías Coleff
Tina Serrano
Héctor Bidonde
Esteban Student
Angela Ragno
Maruja Pibernat
Mario Rolla
Pochi Ducasse
Guillermina Selay
Alejandro Galluccio
Juan Manuel Tenuta
Fernanda Diaz
Felisa Rocha
Héctor Ezcurra
Hebe Vardino
Enrique Riestra
Antonio Lorenzo
Juan Palomino
Fredy Magliaro
Luis Minces
Guillermo Bravo Sosa
Ricardo Alanis
Alejandra Sirlin
Octavio Gaspar
Carlos Weber
Miguel Habud
Alberto Busaid
Alfonso De Grazia
Néstor Jorge
Ricardo Ibarlin
María Nydia Ursi
Andrea Bonelli
Manuel Callau
Martín Coria
Miguel Ángel Porro
Lorenzo Quinteros
José Andrada
Felipe Méndez
Miguel Dedovich
Ricardo Fasan
Humberto Serrano
Francisco Cocuzza
Juan Carlos Gianuzzi
María José López
Daniel Kargieman
Isabel Quinteros
Rúbens Correa
Pablo Moretti
Marcelo Demarchi
Roxana Bignasco
Lucio Rubinacci
Adolfo Vázquez Gamboa
Also Directed by Héctor Olivera
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