Kindergarten (film)
Kindergarten is a 1989 Argentine movie directed by Jorge Polaco, based on Asher Benatars novel. It stars Graciela Borges, Arturo Puig and Luisa Vehil. It was banned from theaters one day short of its release and has remained unreleased in Argentina for overyears.
The film sparked controversy due to its perceived mistreat of child actors the protagonist, an elevenyearold, spends most of his screentime naked, as well as a number of censored scenes an adult woman and a child take a bath together, the same woman later on makes suggestive advances on the child, plus the inclusion of an unrelated, explicit oral sex scene. The movie was banned from theaters one day short of release and a prolonged trial ensued over eight years, emotionally devastating Polaco and his fellow workmen. It has gained notoriety as being the first film to be censored by the government following the end of the Dirty War in 1983.Polaco lobbied for many years for the release of Kindergarten in public theaters. A restored copy of Kindergarten was eventually released on the 2010 Mar del Plata Film Festival for the first time since its shooting overyears before. ........
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