If it Please the CourtMovie
The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial of Judge Baltasar Garzon, for investigating the forced disappearances of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. Juxtaposing the testimonies of the relatives of those who lost loved ones with references to Argentina’s and Chile’s recent dictatorships, this film explores issues around international law and forced disappearance - tracing a line between Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and Jorge Videla’s Military Junta: Garzón has investigated Argentine torturers and criminal perpetrators and had Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 for crimes against humanity.
About If it Please the Court
If it Please the Court is a 2022 drama movie directed by Alejo Moguillansky.
The production information lists a runtime of 56m, production credits from Argentina, United Kingdom, an original language code of ES.
The credited cast includes Walter Jakob, Luciana Acuña, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
