Night of the Pencils

Night of the Pencils

They were young students. They were raped, tortured, and shot.

1986105 min7.0 / 10

A harrowing true-crime account of state terror and the systematic torture and murder of innocent young students under dictatorship.

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

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