Raymundo Gleyzer (September 25, 1941 - missing since May 27, 1976) was an Argentine screenwriter and filmmaker. He specialized in documentaries and politically charged fiction films. Gleyzer was part of the Marxist political party and guerrilla PRT- ERP. In 1976 he was kidnapped, likely murdered and disappeared as part of the dictatorship's campaign of State-sponsored terrorism.
Biography Born into an Argentine Jewish family in Buenos Aires, Gleyzer became interested in politics and film early on in his life. From the start of his career all of his films were focused on the fight against social injustice and for political revolution in Latin America's countries.
He made his first film in the wilds of northeastern Brazil, where he barely escaped death at the hands of the military dictatorship ruling there. In the early 1970s he made a film in Mexico about the so-called "institutionalized revolution" of the ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The film was banned in Argentina at first, but was well-received in Mexico by university students. In 1973 he co-founded the group, which organized demonstrations and discussions with workers (i.e., outside the film industry).
His last major film, (The Traitors, 1973), presents a strong critique of the right-wing faction which prevailed in the Peronist political movement at the time and which also played a pivotal role in Juan Domingo Peron's third and last presidential term, in 1973. The film depicts how several union leaders had secretly and slowly aligned themselves —many years before Perón's comeback and inauguration for his third presidency— with the economical establishment, the military and United States's interests with the only goal of maintaining their personal power and enrich themselves.
On May 27, 1976, Gleyzer was abducted and tortured by a death squad of the Argentina's last military dictatorship that had come to power two months earlier, and never seen again. He is thus one of thousands of (disappeared) of the dictatorship, most of which were secretly murdered. Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff created a cartoon dedicated to Gleyzer and the violently "disappeared" people of Latin America.
Films 1964: The Land Burns (), short documentary 1964: , short 1965: 1966: It Happened in Hualfin (), documentary 1966: Our Malvinas Islands (), short documentary 1969: Elinda of the Valley (), short documentary 1971: Swift 1971, documentary 1971: Mexico: The Frozen Revolution (), documentary 1972: , short documentary 1973: The Traitors (), drama 1975: , documentary
References
Fernando Peña, Carlos Vallina: Ediciones de la Flo, Buenos Aires 2000. Adela, Pineda Franco: , no. 2, pp. 99–123, 2016. Adela Pineda Franco: Chapter 4. The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century. SUNY Press, 2019. 1970: . 1972/73: . 1973/74: .
External links Official Site. Archived at Wayback Machine.
Raymundo Gleyzer Cineismo Documentary about Raymundo Gleyzer. Archived at Wayback Machine About Gleyzer's disappearance Desaparecidos.org Raymundo. Archived at Wayback Machine Raymundo: the documentary Egrupos.net Our Islas Malvinas (1966) YouTube