We were big, big fans of Sebastián Borensztein's comedy drama
Chinese Takeaway in these parts and now the Argentine helmer has reunited with leading man Ricardo Darin for what promises to be a riveting true life thriller.
The year is 1977 and the military dictatorship ruling Argentina has
chosen to throw political prisoners into the sea from Navy aircraft as a
method of extermination.
Captain Tomas Kóblic is about to face the most agonizing crossroads in
his life. Summoned with no prior information prior to one of the
"flights of death", he finds himself in command of the plane,
accompanied by other repressors and surrounded by half-naked men and
women in a drugged stupor, whose bodies display the ravages of torture.
Kóblic swings from horror to disobedience, creating an emergency in the
midst of the macabre flight plan.
What happens during the mission leads him to abandon his military
career, unexpectedly and informally. Kóblic takes refuge in Colonia
Helena, a small village a few kilometers from the Atlantic coast, where
Alberto Tejero, who was a friend of his father's, runs an old hangar and
provides crop spraying services.
In the lost village lying in the middle of the vast Pampa plains, Kóblic
begins a new, unexpected and yet no less violent chapter in his life.
Having lost his bearings, abandoned by his wife and in hiding, he tries
to survive by flying his friend's crop duster. But in this village,
where life seems so quiet and peaceful, the only law laid down is that
of Police Chief Velarde, a delinquent in uniform, the leader of a gang
of cattle rustlers with shady ties to the military leaders in control of
the region ...
The first trailer for
Koblic is now freshly arrived online. Take a look below.