The zombie movie that beat Romero by three years—then vanished into a dictatorship.
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.
Direction
Schembri blurs documentary and fiction until you're lost
Writing
Saracino's obsessive hunt becomes the real story
Editing
Clever cuts that make you question every 'expert'
Director
Pablo Schembri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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