Name: Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 7.8

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About

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.

Director

Pablo Schembri

Producers

Pablo Schembri, Mariel Bomczuk, Nicolás Batlle

Music

Javier Ruiz

Studio

Películas Zapruder

Original Title

Zombies en el cañaveral: el documental

Original Language

Spanish

Keywords

movie business plagiarism cinema on cinema mockumentary docudrama fake documentary zombie apocalypse 1960s political repression argentinean cinema cinema history film censorship semi-fiction