Vacuum

Overview

The film explores the effects in the society that the last military dictatorship inherited. In Uruguay there are still a lot of desaparecidos - people who vanished during the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985 - and were never found again. María Emilia is one of them and still missing. She disappeared when she was 22-years-old, with her husband and her child of 18 months. María Esther - her mother - spent 16 years searching only to finally find her granddaughter living with a family of an Argentinean military officer in Buenos Aires. After learning the truth about her origin, the granddaughter chose to continue living with the parents who adopted her by force when she was a baby.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 12, 2009

Original language

Spanish

Spoken languages

spanish

Countries

Germany, Uruguay

Production

Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion,MTC Producciones,MTC Producciones, Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1562473