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Saldaño, el sueño dorado

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Saldaño, el sueño dorado
EnglishThe Golden Dream
Directed byRaúl Viarruel
Written byRaúl Viarruel
Release date
  • March 2014 (2014-03)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Saldaño, el sueño dorado (Saldaño, The Golden Dream) is a 2014 documentary by Raúl Viarruel about Víctor Saldaño, an Argentine man on death row in Texas.

The film discusses the life of Saldaño, including his murder of a man and the resulting death sentence. Viarruel uses material from staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship and Saldaño's mother Lidia Guerrero; he was unable to acquire interview material from Saldaño himself.[1]

Viarruel is a journalist at Radio Nacional de Córdoba. The filmmaker stated: "La película asume la certeza de lo que es y cómo funciona el sistema judicial norteamericano para alguien latinoamericano y pobre como Saldaño" (The film takes on the certainty of the judicial system in then United States and how it works for someone from Latin America and poor like Saldaño).[1] He added that he wanted to obtain a better outcome for Saldaño, but not to exculpate him.[1]

Reception

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Horacio Bilbao of Clarín wrote that the film was "Buena" (good).[2]

Pablo Suárez of the Buenos Aires Herald gave a negative review, arguing that it was uninteresting.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c ""Saldaño, el sueño dorado" la historia del argentino condenado a muerte". Diario Registrado [es]. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  2. ^ Bilbao, Horacio (2015-05-01). ""Saldaño. El sueño dorado": Un argentino condenado". Clarín. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  3. ^ Suárez, Pablo (2015-04-30). ""Saldaño, el sueño dorado" la historia del argentino condenado a muerte". Buenos Aires Herald. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
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