Could you hear these voices from the grave? Zimbabwe! Congo! Cuba! Bolivia! What are the links among them? There are ghosts under the sun of happy murders and old secret service agents... endless ghosts of the contemporary history... Che Guevara. Lumumba. There are 'official' historical/political truths put forward by governments. How much can TV 'reveal' truth or uncover propaganda? And what is the journalists, historians and intellectuals responsibility? Does TV have the courage to show to our 'beautiful world of entertainment' that there are hard truths to be told? Is this history for a new generation of filmmakers or the beginning of a new mythology?
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