Prosecutor
Alberto Nisman
was investigating the responsibility of the Argentine government and Iranian officials in the attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) when, hours before presenting the evidence of that pact, he was found dead.
Tomorrow,
Saturday the 22nd
at 5:45 p.m. at the Multiplex Lavalle (the first of three planned performances)
Nisman, victim 86 premieres
in the context of
Bafici
.
It is a documentary that gets me into the bowels of that puzzle that the prosecutor left behind on the day of his death.
The film, which contains a great variety of voices, seeks to leave the testimony of an era.
Nisman, a man of justice backed by President Kirchner at the time, is a fundamental figure in recent Argentine history.
The movie does not glorify it.
A reconstruction of what could have happened.
In the Festival's press release it is said that the documentary points to "the obstinacy" to find the culprits, even when the investigation gets bogged down.
It was directed by
Pablo Racioppi
, director of
El olimpo vacío
(Bafici '13),
El diálogo
(Bafici '14) and
Jujuy desoído
(2021).
One of the producers is
Waldo Wolff
, former congressman and current Secretary of Public Affairs of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
With the death of Nisman, it is known, he tried to establish that it had been a suicide.
Little by little, irregularities began to appear: the certainty of the previously liberated area, a mysterious fire, a friendly weapon, clumsiness in the crime scene expert reports and a quantity of evidence, some of which allowed the Justice to conclude that it was not tried an accident.
Not a suicide.
Nisman was investigating the responsibility of the Argentine government and Iranian officials in the AMIA bombing.
For Wolff, who in this case acts as producer of the documentary, "our objective is to leave testimony through multiple referents, actors, journalists, politicians, communicators and experts about what they had to live through."
With testimonials
"The testimonies collected - he adds - seek that anyone who wants to know what happened, have
our testimonies
with real facts, with documentation and with a plot that shows the connection between the Embassy, the attack on the AMIA, the signing of the memorandum with Iran, the change geopolitics and the death of Néstor".
In addition, he says, "the turn that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner makes, the fight in the services, the interference of politics and, among other things, the responsibility of the governments in power in not clarifying the attack... From that It's about telling our story in a friendly way so someone can sit down and know a part of the story they didn't know."
The building where the prosecutor Alberto Nisman lived.
Why
"victim 86"
?
Racioppi
, director of the documentary, tells: "In the experience of making documentaries, certain titles always appear, during the filming or the editing process. That's more rare in fiction because the fiction script generally has a title that closes with the story. In this case we interviewed the mother of one of the 85 victims of the attack against the AMIA and she, at one point, says that Nisman was the 86th victim".
"At that moment -continues the director- I thought it was a good title and I finished corroborating it by looking for articles, doing archive work, and finding in Clarín
a
text called
"Nisman, the victim 86"
, written by Alberto Fernández, where he claims Nisman. There I had no doubts. I proposed it to Waldo Wolff, who had already started a work related to the subject and also wrote a book about Nisman. I want to clarify that this audiovisual is not my idea, but his he.
-Differences and similarities with the Netflix documentary series?
-The differences?
To begin with, the Netflix series has an industrial character due to its budget and its deployment.
This is a low-budget documentary, made by lungs and in an almost handmade way, with a very small team of people.
Another difference is that that documentary leaves open the two hypotheses: homicide and suicide.
It doesn't end anywhere.
Waldo Wolff, current Secretary of Public Affairs of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is a producer of the documentary.
Photo File Clarín
Another difference is that in our work the idea is to understand the framework that led to the memorandum, the memorandum to the complaint, and the complaint that led to Nisman being found dead.
I, the truth, I do not finish elucidating what was the motivation of the Netflix documentary.
I don't know for what purpose it was done.
If it was a commercial objective or if they wanted to install something, leaving the hypotheses open...
-Do you work in particular around one of the two theories?
-Waldo Wolff wrote a book based on the amount of evidence that Nisman did not commit suicide.
I took some evidence that is irrefutable and not debatable due to its forcefulness: the position of the body and the position of the weapon: the weapon could never appear where it appeared if he had shot himself in front of the mirror, as the suicide hypothesis maintains.
The objective is to make it clear that there is sufficient evidence, that there is an opinion of Justice to say that the suicide hypothesis is invalid.
Nisman was killed.
Who, how and why he will probably never know.
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