El País Editorial
The figures around <a href="http://www.world-today-news.com/former-senator-warns-of-impending-economic-storm-and-criticizes-dollar-policy-in-uruguay/" title="Former Senator Warns of Impending Economic Storm and Criticizes Dollar Policy in Uruguay“>Jorge Batlle: between heaven and hell They never cease to surprise. The documentary of Federico Lemos about the former Uruguayan president was released in theaters on May 23, and by the beginning of September it had already sold more than 25 thousand ticketsbecoming the highest-grossing local film in recent years.
At the end of September, when the documentary had already been released, it was shown on Channel 12 and Nuevo Siglo’s NSNow added it to its catalog of movies for rent. Now, Jorge Batlle: between heaven and hell arrived on a new platform and you can see free an internet.
On October 7, the Film and Audiovisual Agency of Uruguay (ACAU) He posted it on his channel YouTubeand in 12 days he managed 63 thousand visits. Free access to the film is part of an ACAU initiative that seeks to develop “activities to promote national cinema and make it available to citizens in different windows.”
Since the initiative was launched in mid-September, films like The old, Our dust who art in heaven y Two orientalsas well as the series Master Poison, The summer you betrayed me y Is it love?.
Jorge Batlle: between heaven and hell It lasts 90 minutes, and is based on interviews with 45 people, including politicians from all parties, former presidents, ministers, senators, historians, rivals and co-religionists. More than 150 hours of recording were gathered to give an account of the view on Batlle and the type of figure he was in national politics.
“By mid-2002, Uruguayan banks had lost half of their deposits. Unemployment, inflation and devaluation were growing by leaps and bounds. Some maintained that the president should step aside,” the synopsis explains. “This is the story of a man who became President at the age of 72, after his fifth attempt, to encounter the worst economic crisis in the history of Uruguay. The heir of a political lineage, owner of a peculiar style that achieved avoid default in the midst of the crisis”.
“What Batlle has is that he is an extremely controversial character,” Lemos told El País when it premiered in theaters. “He was not a figure of political consensus and he is also a very rich character from the point of view of what he can give to whoever wants to tell his story.” The film is completed with a lot of archival material, including unpublished photos and footage.
