The Life and Death of Oscar Pérez
MovieTitle | Vie et mort d’Óscar Pérez |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Oct 25, 2019 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Romain Champalaune |
Production country | France |
Run time | 46 min. |
Óscar Alberto Pérez (1981-2018) was a Venezuelan policeman who, after Nicolás Maduro had been sworn in as president, became an active opponent of his regime. In June 2017, he attacked the Supreme Court of Justice from a helicopter. In January 2018, the Venezuelan national guard tracked him down, and although he gave up to them, shot him dead along with five other rebels. The film is his traditional portrait sketched out as a pattern edited documentary with Pérez himself having taken part in its making. Actually, all audiovisual material that the editor Romain Champalaune composed the film of comes from Pérez’s profiles on social networks.