Marco Bechis
Biography
Marco Bechis (Santiago de Chile, Chile, October 24, 1955) is a Chilean-Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a survivor of the concentration camp “El Club Atlético”, where he was detained for 15 days in April 1977, during the Argentine military dictatorship. He was expelled to Italy, since he had a passport from that country. His film "Garage Olimpo", which talks about this dictatorship, was presented at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
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Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Sleeping man on a train
We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The young Rosa contacts Javier and tries to convince him that they are twin brothers, separated at birth. Thus, the two begin a journey to rediscover their origins and their past. A bitter reality is ready to overwhelm them ...
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Sé stesso
A documentary film that recounts the life of Vera Vigevani Jarach, through a firsthand account of two experiences that, over time and in different places, shaped her life, confronting her under two different dictatorships that made deportation and physical elimination commonplace: Nazism and Fascism and the Argentine dictatorship. The disappearance of her daughter Franca inspired Vera to become a founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and a "memory activist," touring Italy and Argentina to tell her two stories, ensuring that these horrors never happen again.