The Young Butler

Jorgelino is a farm worker in the south of Chile. For many years he worked as an agent of the repressive machinery of Pinochet’s regime. Jorgelino was “el Mocito” (the young butler) who brought the cups of coffee in the middle of torture sessions, the one who fed the prisoners and disposed of their bodies. Twenty years later he is being taken to court and forced to remember. El Mocito is a psychological portrait of a human being destroyed by his past. A man who participated in the horrors and crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship, but who today faces his conscience and looks for redemption.

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Script: Marcela Said, Jean de Certeau

Cinematography: Arnaldo Rodriguez

Editing: Jean de Certeau

Sound: Erick del Valle, Boris Herrera

Music: Jorge Arriagada

Production: Icalmafilms, Chile T.+56 2 241 9697 icalmafilms@gmail.comwww.icalmafilms.com

Producers: Marcela Said

Format: HDCAM Color

Production Country: Chile

Production Year: 2011

Duration: 70

Contact: Mogador Film, Germany Christoph Thoke Τ. +49 172 891 3466 christoph@mogadorfilm.de www.mogadorfilm.de

The Horizonte Prize - Dok.fest 2011, Germany
Jury Prize - FIDOCS 2011, Chile
Jury Prize - FICV Valdivia 2011, Chile

Marcela Said

Filmography

1999 Valparaiso (short)
2001 I Love Pinochet (short)

Filmography Marcela Said & Jean de Certeau
2006 opus Dei, une croisade silencieuse/
opus Dei, a silent crusade (short)
2011 El Mocito/The young Butler