1978

Local title
1978
Director
Nicolás Onetti, Luciano Onetti
Year
2024

What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into hell.

During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention centre.

What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people have been kidnapped. They turn out to be part of a macabre cult guided by an unknown supernatural force.

A brutal story of violence in a police station with images that evoke the nightmares seen in films such as “Baskin” (Can Evrenol, 2015) and “Malum” (Anthony DiBlasi, 2023).

Director
Nicolás Onetti, Luciano Onetti
Screenwriter
Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti, Camilo Zaffora
Producer
Nicolás Onetti, Charly Goitia, Michael Kraetzer, Sayif Aram
Cast
Agustin Pardella, Carlos Portaluppi, Mario Alarcon, Agustin Olcese, Jorge Lorenzo, Santiago Rios, Gustavo Bonfigli, Paula Silva, Gustavo Bayley, Gustavo Pardi, Maria Eugenia Rigon, Justina Ceballos
Cinematographer
Luciano Montes de Oca, Kasty Castillo
Editing
Luciano Onetti, Ludovico Opipari
Production Design
Paola Tolosa
Composer
Luciano Onetti
Production
Black Mandala Films, Wild Duck Productions
Music
Luciano Onetti
Sound
Germán Suracce, Ezequiel Brodsky
World sales
Black Mandala Films
Runtime
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Other festivals
Sitges
Director
Luciano Onetti

Sonno Profondo (2013), Francesca (2015), Abrakadabra (2018, co-dir), 1978 (2024, co-dir)

Director
Nicolás Onetti

Los olvidados (What the Waters Left Behind, 2017, co-dir), Abrakadabra (2018, co-dir), Los olvidados: Cicatrices (What the Waters Left Behind: Scars, 2022), 1978 (2024, co-dir)

Screenings

Screening070905 / 1978
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Screening094203 / 1978
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Screening160704 / 1978
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
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