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In ‘Under The Flags, The Sun’ A Filmmaker Probes Archives To Expose Paraguay’s Dictator – Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival
Paraguay's ex-dictator Alfredo Stroessner is exposed in the documentary 'Under the Flags, the Sun,' directed by Juanjo Pereira.
Included are newsreels, propaganda films, and some material shot by French journalists, “revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule,” as the Thessaloniki festival describes it. Between the documents and grainy, mostly black-and-white imagery, the film shows how Stroessner dominated all aspects of Paraguayan life, rendering many ordinary people apparently incapable of thinking for themselves. L-R Producer James Costa, moderator, and director Juanjo Pereira speak at a Q&A following a screening of ‘Under the Flags, the Sun’ in Thessaloniki, Greece Matthew Carey
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