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unusual facts about Lourdes Portillo


Lourdes Portillo

It was followed by Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a 1986 co-production with the Argentine director Susana Blaustein Muñoz which documented the actions of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of Argentine women who gather weekly at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to remember their children that were murdered or "disappeared" by the military regime.


After the Earthquake

It was written and directed by Lourdes Portillo with Nina Serrano, and stars Vilma Coronado, Agnelo Guzman, and Leticia Cortez.

Susana Blaustein Muñoz

She directed four films since she started her career in 1980, and produced one of them, the documentary Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo (1985, with co-director Lourdes Portillo), about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who looked for their disappeared children during the Dirty War.


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