a documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Evita is a documentary on the life of Eva Duarte created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley and available through Amazon.com. Conformed in its entirety with previously unseen historical footage and documents, the film reconstructs the life of former Argentine first lady from an unbiased perspective. The film starts with a meticulous background of Evita’s origins, the relationship with her parents (particularly that with her father) and siblings. Evita goes on to reveal intimate aspects of the protagonist early childhood and adolescence leading to her determination to flee from the countryside the capital city of Buenos Aires. Worth noticing on this last period are the interviews with former teachers of Evita’s elementary schooling in Junin, in Buenos Aires’s province. Throughout the film the director is constantly reminding the audience of the domestic and international context which greatly helps in understanding the facts. The second act of this documentary concludes with the funerals of the First Lady in Buenos Aires, but the film goes beyond this point yet into a third act exposing the macabre plot to have Evita’s corpse disappear and the curious series of events leading to the exchange of cadavers between the so called Peronist youth and the military regime.
PATAGONIA FILM GROUP presents "EVITA" a film by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY written in collaboration with NELSON MONTES-BRDLEY edited by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY narrated by TYLOR JOHNSTON produced by SOLEDAD LIENDO written and directed by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY.© 2008 by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. All Rights Reserved.
Evita: The documentary is a documentary made entirely out of archival footage and narrated mostly with a traditional voice over which gives the film the tenure of the traditional News Reels in the 1940´s. These films were very much the core of Evita´s strategy to seduce Argentina the Nation and if she succeeded in becoming the legendary figure we know her to be is in part due to the image the People will see over and over aging at the theatres where her angelical figure of good Godmother to all will became one with the big names of Hollywood invading the silver screen in Argentina.
Her funerals became the stage of a grandiose film production, the first color feature ever made in Argentina. Peron himself hired director…..
Even after her death n 1952, the amazing propaganda machine of the Peronist Regime promoted her image with feature length documentaries prizing her greatness for all eternity in black and white.
The following is a transcription of the Screenplay narrated on the screen by Taylor Johnson and written, edited and directed by me, Yours Truly, Eduardo Montes-Bradley