Federico Robles

A young argentine director travels to Spain for the first time and re-discovers his grandfather's past as a Franco soldier and Civil Guard. This fact will affect his own present.

The fundamentals of the court ruling for crimes against humanity committed in the clandestine center La Perla during the last dictatorship occupy 4664 pages. The cause, which culminated in 2016 with perpetual imprisonment for Luciano B. Menéndez and 28 other defendants, is the most voluminous and extensive judicial process in the history of the province of Córdoba. The trial extended for almost four years, had more than 50 imputed, and 581 witnesses participated.

Luis Alberto Quijano declared himself a witness in the “megacase” of La Perla for one of the worst crimes against humanity in the province of Cordoba during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. El hijo del cazador follows Quijano’s life story.