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A Twelve-Year Night

La noche de 12 años

2018

Based on a true story, three captured Tupamaro guerrillas — including a future president of Uruguay — endure twelve years of solitary confinement and torture under the military dictatorship, clinging to sanity and hope. A harrowing, humane drama.

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