New York, November 12 (EFE).- The film about the horrors of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, ‘The Photographer of 40’, won on Tuesday the award for the best documentary at the Dominican Film Festival in New York, which this year ‘ celebrating the 13th. edit.
The documentary, made by the photographer of the EFE Group in Santo Domingo Orlando Barría and by Erika Santalices, who is also a journalist, tells how the Trujillo regime was brought down through a shocking image of a man with his eyes ‘ spit out while under torture. in the electric chair.
Trujillo had ordered a photographer to record the torture he inflicted on his political enemies, and he had ordered a laboratory for this purpose, from which he was forbidden to take any pictures.
However, the photographer Pedro Aníbal Fuentes Berg secretly took that image in 1959 and gave it to his brother, an airline pilot, who forced the image to leave the country and irrevocably made the horrors of the dictatorship known to the world
The two Fuentes Berg brothers disappeared, apparently after being kidnapped by the political police, and their whereabouts were never known.
The dictatorship continued for two more years, until Trujillo was assassinated.
Barría and Santalices’ film tells the story of that image through the voices of the Fuentes family and also the relatives of the man who took the picture, José Mesón, a Dominican revolutionary who entered the island from Cuba with the intention of Trujillo dismissed as a commentary on Castro’s Cuban Revolution.
‘The Photographer of 40’ has already won two more awards, one at the Santo Domingo Global Festival, just after its premiere last March, and another at the Puerto Rico International Festival, in the -September.
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