| Night of the Pencils | |
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| Directed by | Héctor Olivera |
| Screenplay by | Héctor Olivera Daniel Kon |
| Based on | La noche de los lápices by María Seoane & Héctor Ruiz Núñez |
| Produced by | Fernando Ayala Alejandro Sessa |
| Starring | Alejo García Pintos Vita Escardó Pablo Novak Adriana Salonia Pablo Machado Leonardo Sbaraglia |
| Cinematography | Leonardo Rodríguez Solís |
| Edited by | Miguel López |
| Music by | José Luis Castiñeira de Dios |
Production company | Aries Cinematográfica Argentina |
| Distributed by | Aries Cinematográfica Argentina |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Night of the Pencils (Spanish: La noche de los lápices) is a 1986 Argentine historical drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and written by Olivera and Daniel Kon. It is based on the non-fiction book by María Seoane and Héctor Ruiz Núñez.[1] It stars Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Leonardo Sbaraglia, José María Monje, Pablo Machado, Adriana Salonia and Héctor Bidonde.
The film, based on the actual events recorded in history as the "Night of the pencils" (La noche de los lápices), tells the story of seven students who, after protesting for lower bus fares for students in the city of La Plata, were abducted in September 1976, during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976 - 1983), and subsequently disappeared. Only one student survived to tell what happened.