The Businessman

Documentary, 75 minutes

In 1976, while taking his grandchildren to school, a businessman was kidnapped by a guerrilla organization. Two months later, the army broke into the house where he was being held captive to free him. That same day, one of the guerrillas was kidnapped and disappeared by the civil-military dictatorship. Decades later, the director of this film, son of that guerrilla fighter, meets and talks with the businessman's son and grandchildren. In their dialogues they relive the event and the shards of the past come to the surface. El empresario is made up of conversations, but also of magazines, posters, flyers, photos, newspapers, advertisements, family films and objects that are also the testimony of an era; a montage in which personal memories intertwine with history and in which the question of the relationship between the one who films and the one who is filmed becomes inescapable.