The young Butler
Director Jean de Certeau, Marcela Said
Countries Chile
Duration 70 min
Synopsis
Jorgelino is a farm worker in the south of CL. For many years he worked as an agent of the repressive machinery of Pinochet´s regime. Jorgelino was « El Mocito » (the young butler) who brought the cups of coffee in the middle of torture sessions, the one who fed the prisoners and disposed of their bodies. Twenty years later he is being taken to court and forced to remember. El Mocito is a psychological portrait of a human being destroyed by his past. A man who participated in the horrors and crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship and that today takes conscience and looks for redemption.
Jorgelino is a farm worker in the south of CL. For many years he worked as an agent of the repressive machinery of Pinochet´s regime. Jorgelino was « El Mocito » (the young butler) who brought the cups of coffee in the middle of torture sessions, the one who fed the prisoners and disposed of their bodies. Twenty years later he is being taken to court and forced to remember. El Mocito is a psychological portrait of a human being destroyed by his past. A man who participated in the horrors and crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship and that today takes conscience and looks for redemption.