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'La vida por Pern' (My Life for Pern) is a 2005 Argentine film directed by Sergio Bellotti and starring Beln Blanco, Cristina Banegas, Esteban Lamothe, Luis Ziembrowski, Oscar Alegre, and Jean Pierre Reguerraz.

Plot



In the political chaos of Argentina during the final days of Juan Domingo Pern's presidency, a gang of political operatives arrives at the house of Cosme (Reguerraz), a member of the Peronist Youth. Cosme's father has just died of a heart attack and the family is holding a vigil. The gang reveals that Pern has died, news that has not yet reached the public. Their leader, Aldo (Alegre) slowly works on building up Cosme's political fervor, before demanding a favor: they want to swap Pern's body, which they have stolen, with the body of Cosme's father. The idea is to make sure the military authorities never learn about the theft, and to keep Pern's body for themselves as a shrine. Their scheme unravels when Cosme eventually collects the courage to refuse to participate, and the gang is then busted by the police, with Aldo and the rest perishing in a gunfight.

Similar themes were addressed in the novel 'Santa Evita' by Toms Eloy Martnez, in which an Army officer is entrusted with the stolen body of Evita Pern, ordered to keep it hidden in order to prevent its becoming a shrine to the Peronist movement.


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