series “Yosi, the repentant spy”, created by Daniel Burman. AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
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Hidden in the branches of the Prime Video portal tree, ignored by the algorithm, lives a spy series as dizzying as a novel by John le Carré, as sensitive and disturbing as a feature film of the new cinema Argentine. In two seasons, Yosi, the repentant spy plunges into the troubled waters of the history of a great country, the dance floor of a deadly tango in which the dictatorship embraces democracy, while giving life to a microcosm of agents, single or double, of merchants of weapons, corrupt police officers and righteous people trying to keep their heads above these nauseating waters.
Originally, there was the case, proven by the publication of a book of memories, of an Argentine internal security agent charged in 1985 with infiltrating the Jewish community of Buenos Aires. Two years earlier, the country elected President Raul Alfonsin, officially ending the military regime that murdered thousands of opponents and brought about the disaster of the Falklands War. The security apparatus remains nourished by fascist ideology and lives in the hope of the failure of the democratic experiment, a failure to which the services are ready to give a helping hand.
Back and forth in time
In this configuration full of dangers emerges the figure of José Perez (Gustavo Bassani), brilliant student at the police academy, frantic anti-Semite since his mother left his father, an unrepentant gambler and drunkard, for a Jewish doctor. Noticed by the leaders of the federal police, his task was to gain the trust of the religious and political leaders of the Jewish community in the capital.
From the first episode, we know that the story that guides the first season revolves around an event, the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which left 29 people dead on March 17, 1992. The scenario goes back and forth in time, from 1985 to the first decade of this century, showing a José Perez who became Yosi Peres for the needs of the anti-Semitic cause, tossed by political convulsions, tormented by the birth of a moral and mystical conscience.
It’s that Yosi, the repentant spy is a project led by Daniel Burman, an Argentinian filmmaker who has devoted a good part of his work to chronicling the life of the Jews of Buenos Aires,Waiting for the messiah (2001) to The king of Eleven (2016). Departing from this intimate vein, adopting, with his co-directors, Sebastian Borensztein and Martin Hodara, a tenser, sharper manner, Burman has nevertheless preserved, to retrace the odyssey of his anti-hero, his concern to stage all the dimensions of the psyche of its characters, inseparable from its desire to include it in the history of a country.
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2023-12-17 10:04:16
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