A Ricardo Darínwe saw it for the last time playing prosecutor Julio César Strassera in the Oscar -nominated film Argentina, 1985. The Eternalseries available in Netflix España Since April 30, he is his return to the screens. And between both titles, one, a historical drama and the other, a science fiction work, there is a link that goes beyond Ricardo Darín: The Argentine dictatorship.
Prosecutor Julio César Strassera was in charge of capturing the dismantling (however, incomplete) of the so -called national reorganization process. During these years of horror, thousands of people disappeared from those who never knew. The figure oscillates darkly Between 8,753 disappearanceswhich the president proposes Javier Milei and 30,000 proposed by the governments of Kirchner marriage.
Most likely, the Videla dictatorship could never be dressed precisely, but among them, among them, was the one of Héctor Germán Oesterheldauthor of the graphic novel on which it is based The Eternaluta.
Who was Héctor Germán Oesterheld?
As indicated by his last name, by the veins of Héctor Germán Oesterheldborn in Buenos Aires in 1919, there was German blood, but also Spanish. At 33, Oesterheld published his first work, which would follow children’s stories and collaborations with the press. The comic became its favorite fieldand in which he lit titles as respected as Bull Rockettwhose journey began in weekly magazines, or EL Sergeant Kirk.
However, no creation of Héctor Germán Oesterheld had the reach of The Eternalutaalready published in its own editorial, the Frontera publishing house. In The Eternalutathe author himself intervened as a character in a plot in which a temporary traveler related an extraterrestrial invasion in Buenos Aires. In 1969after several years without knowing about this eternalauta, The writer began to elaborate a new storymore politically compromised than the previous one, and that left unfinished to focus on other projects.
The military coup made Héctor Germán Oesterheld, of socialist ideas, had to move on to clandestinity. While fighting the regime, the Buenos Aires ended the script of The Eternaluta III hoped to see one day published. Its history ends abruptly on April 27, 1977, when The Armed Forces kidnap in La Plata. By then, Oesterheld didn’t have much to lose: His four daughters had been killed by the Argentine dictatorship, two of them being pregnant.
It was never known what happened to Héctor Germán Oesterheld when the military took him by force for the usual curondestine interrogation and detention centers. Some reprisals who managed to leave alive recognize that they saw him, bruise and weak, at several points before his track was definitively lost in 1978, more than likely year of his murder.
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