Synopsis

In the summer of 1991, in Mendoza, the body of the German botanist Heinz Brücher was found. The case remains in the dark for 30 years until a journalist decides to reopen, investigating the connections between the murdered scientist, his Nazi past, the creation of a plant virus, and the theft of the world’s largest seed bank.

• Mariana

  Guzzante

  Co-director

  Among her works are Quinography, an INCAA Media Audience Documentary (screenwriter, 2022); Maps of Art, a documentary series broadcast on Argentine Public TV; and Plataforma ContAr (co-director and screenwriter, 2020). She is also a screenwriter for BAP Buenos Aires to the Pacific, a documentary feature film.

• Camila

  Menendez

  Co-director

  She graduated as a director from the Cuyo Film School and, in 2020, premiered her first feature film as a director, Sisters of the Trees. Since 2010, she has been a freelance editor for various production companies and television channels, such as Baraka Cine, Pandito Films, Shango, Canal 7, and Acequia TV.

• Silvana

  Diaz Coppoletta

  Producer

  She is finishing Scafati. Palaba pintada, her documentary debut. Brücher won the Development award at the Mirada Oeste Festival (Mendoza, 2022) and has been selected for Bolivia Lab 2023. She is the producer of the documentaries El mal absoluto and The Woman in the Photo.