Juan, como si nada hubiera sucedido
(Juan, como si nada hubiera sucedido)

In 1977, in the tourist town of Bariloche, Juan Marcos Herman, one of the thirty thousand missing under Argentina’s last civil and military dictatorship, is detained and transferred to a secret detention centre. He was the town’s only citizen to experience this gruesome fate. Ten years after this grim event, Echeverría finished his cinematographic enquiry (which was only released theatrically in 2005). It reveals a whole period, its discourses, and the political questions facing everyone in their relationship to truth. A local journalist, whose sagacity and conduct resemble those of a heroic detective, gathers information, talks to the family, friends, mayors and army personnel to reconstitute the thread of events and discover the fate of the young student. RK