Rebellion in Patagonia (1974) Movie Script
Taken from the book "The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia"
of Osvaldo Bayer.
For narrative reasons some of the facts
names and ranks have been altered.
Buenos Aires January 1923
REBELLION IN PATAGONIA
Son of a bitch!
Ro Gallegos 3 years before
Things have to be said without
mincing words comrades.
Hotel owners are all
a bunch of exploiters.
Yes! Despicable exploiters!
The waiters and kitchen
staff of Hotel Argentino...
work from 6 in the morning
through to midnight.
And for that they pay us
a miserable 80 pesos!
And anyone who dares to look
askance at it is fired...
and isn't able to get work
in any other hotel.
There are two alternatives comrades:
Either die of hunger
or kowtow to them.
We have to fuel the fire comrades!
There's no chance of winning here:
I demand that the Federation...
calls a strike in the hotels.
Because otherwise we'll
do justice with our own hands...
and not an exploiter will be left
with a head in all of Ro Gallegos.
Starting with my boss
the bloodsucker Carballeira.
One moment comrades!
Wait a moment.
Permission to speak.
Go on.
You're right
but we must be disciplined.
If hotels have to be burnt
we'll burn them
but it must be by a
majority resolution.
Because there are two fundamental
words that shouldn't be forgotten...
in anarcho-syndicalism:
discipline and organization.
Comrade Graa.
Comrades the time has come
for plain speaking.
The issues about...
organization and discipline
you've been listening to
leave out human values.
Speak plainly then.
OK but say once and for all.
Do you agree with
the hotel strike? Yes or no?
Comrade Secretary General
you're restricting me
in my turn to speak.
You're right comrade.
But be concrete please.
I'm being asked for
definitions here
but I'm replying
that before a strike...
it's preferable to know
where the individual's going.
What the revolution is for.
Well said Kropotkin
that revolutions...
Comrade Graa we'll discuss
that in the ideology lessons.
Right now we're dealing
with the hotel staff strike.
Begging your pardon.
Comrade Danielewski
reports now.
Comrades I have to
denounce the Hotel Espaa...
which pays Chilean workers
half wages...
just for being Chilean.
We cab drivers...
inform the Federation
of our solidarity...
with the strike by not driving
a single passenger...
to the hotels! Not one!
- Strike!
- Yes strike!
I want to tell you that I've come
from Puerto Santa Cruz...
I want to tell you that I've come
from Puerto Santa Cruz...
to bring you the solidarity
of the stevedores
- ... waiters and wagoners.
- Well done comrade!
And to inform you that if
you declare a strike
we will also stop work in
the hotels of Puerto Santa Cruz.
Long live the comrades
of Santa Cruz! Hurrah!
- Long live anarchy!
- Hurrah!
Comrades... Comrades...
Comrades
Patagonian exploiters...
value men less than
mules or packhorses
since today one worker
is replaced by another...
without any cost.
- Well said.
- Very well said.
We're workers from
all parts of the world.
Isn't that so German?
Eh Poles?
And you Chilean comrades.
And we are here
united by solidarity.
Today that solidarity is called:
Support for the comrades
hotel workers.
I ask then...
for us to vote for the strike
for an indeterminate time
until we win.
I would say my friend
what we need now...
is a bit of organization.
Nearly all the landowners
are with us.
That's good. I'm glad..
For if the workers unite...
No no no.
A thrust is needed.
Someone directing.
Who directs and knows
how to defend our interests.
What do you think my friend?
We need a manager
for our organization.
Finding one in Ro Gallegos
will be hard.
No no.
We've already found him.
And he's very near.
Here at this table.
You Mndez Garzn.
But sirs are you forgetting that I'm
the Governor of the territory?
What would they say in Buenos Aires?
Imagine
Governor of Santa Cruz
and Manager of the Rural Society.
Don't you think there's
an incompatibility?
Do you think so?
From both jobs you will have
a better perspective.
What's more
think of your future.
Public office
is very unstable.
You're a Conservative
the National Government is Radical.
Gentlemen I would like to thank you
for your presence in my house.
Thank you Carballeira we are
in solidarity with the only hotel...
- ... which managed to scorn the strike.
- Thank you.
And how did you achieve it?
Well quite simply
with people of goodwill
with responsible workers.
Out! Out! Scabs! Blacklegs!
I'll kick your arse!
Look what you've done! Look!
- Look at that pan!
- Get out!
- Out!
- Let me be comrade.
- I have seven kids.
- That's nonsense.
Leave everything
we'll help you.
Come on! Be off! Out!
See German
that's what I'm lacking.
A woman.
A companion.
Of bourgeois upbringing
as Graa would say.
But you won't deny
that a good pair...
A woman!
To love. To love her well.
Damn it how nice!
One thing or the other.
Come on old man
Because I had one
I know what I'm saying.
Because I had one
I know what I'm saying.
First it was ideas...
and love.
Then when the kids came...
and jail.
Look what I gave her, poor thing.
My times in jail...
and the kids going hungry.
- Did you leave them in Germany?
- Yes.
With the promise to bring them
over soon to enjoy the freedom
of justice!
You certainly chose well.
Even in the uttermost corner
there's egoist exploitation.
You thought you were coming
to paradise?
Look I'll join you in the fight
until we win
and then go to live with my own ones
in earthly paradise
far away from men.
And where's that?
Listen I'm only telling it to you.
Among forests and mountains
by Lago Argentino.
- Blood sucker!
- Criminal!
- Bastard!
- Exploiter!
Comrades make way!
- Bloodsucker slave-driver.
- Exploiter.
Gentlemen... Gentlemen I'm here
on the advice of the Judge...
to settle this dispute.
A legitimate weapon
of the workers.
- Yes yes apologize.
- Not to us.
The ones you should apologize
to are the workers...
you fired.
The comrades.
What's more they must be paid
the wages owing up to today.
And deposit in the Workers' Society
1500 pesos as a fine sir.
1500?
As a fine?
Yes. For legal damages.
For the cost of organizing
the boycott against you
printing of flyers
and moral damages.
The staff's wages.
- Good!
- Well done comrade!
- 1500 pesos!
- Bravo!
- Good!
- Bravo!
Children of the people
chains oppress you
and that injustice
cannot continue.
If your existence
is a world of troubles,
I'd sooner die
than slavery.
Those bourgeois,
so selflsh,
who thus despise
humanlty.
They shall be swept away
by anarchists
to the strident shout of freedom.
Red flag,
suffer no more,
exploitatlon
must succumb.
Rise up, loyal people,
to the shout of soclal revolution.
Dignity,
is not to be asked,
only unity
can demand It.
Our shields
you shall not smash.
clumsy bourgeols,
get back! Get back!
Comrades. Comrades
Comrades with this money...
we'll be able to buy
one of the most-prized weapons...
of anarcho-syndicalism.
- A printing press!
- Very good!
A printing press to clarify things
for our rural comrades...
and so that the ignominy
of exploitation is ended.
Comrades.
don't think that ranch owners
will be convinced by words.
We know it comrade.
We know that the landowners
are very strong and powerful.
But we also know that we have
the fundamental weapon...
to overcome them.
The strike!
- Long live the strike!
- Hurrah!
Silence comrades.
Comrades
to carry to the final victory...
the black banner of anarchy...
and the red of syndicalism
we must start from the bottom.
Comrades we must affiliate
al the rural workers...
to our federation.
Here.
Look Mr. Soto
I don't understand anything
of politics but I do try to...
help the rural workers
you can count on me.
I expected no less.
You know that I earn my pesos
with my fleet of wagons.
But I've always been
on the side of the underlings.
More than once I've been thrashed
for demanding fair wages.
That isn't forgotten.
And when one has to fight I fight
that's why I'm called "Facn Grande".
You are a very well-respected man
that's why we're asking you to go
affiliating the rural workers for us.
Certainly. Leave it to me.
Look friends
do you know what this is?
Here the abuses of the
bad bosses are denounced.
And you know what you have to do
join the federation...
and support the workers' society
which defends you.
Yes man which defends you.
From the bosses
and from the police too.
And from that bastard
of a governor we have.
Come on we mustn't be afraid.
In this city we have
a nest of rats.
Rats who want to destroy
nationality
nationhood ownership.
But my friend don't be scared
by those crazy anarchists.
They're nothing more than a bunch of
mouthy simpleton Spanish immigrants.
Simpletons? The Russian Revolution
was made by simpletons like them.
Remember Lenin himself had to
get rid of 20 thousand anarchists.
Go on.
Imagine sir, if Lenin
had killed them all
what would we have to do?
Read. Read the terms carefully.
They don't acknowledge nationhood
frontiers or anything.
Now they're preparing a tribute
to a man who was executed in Spain.
Now that's a provocation.
I will not permit excess.
Take care Governor I'm warning you
that I'll report...
any breach of the Law.
Your Honor
don't think you'll intimidate me
with your relationship with Yrigoyen.
I too have my friends
and in more powerful places
than the Presidential Palace.
Sir, excuse me but
you may not go in.
Do you know what you're doing?
You are lacking respect
for my position as Judge!
But sir it's an order
from the governor.
What governor! Bullshit!
Tell that gentleman to go
and govern the Rural Society.
Gentlemen I'm here in person
to advise you of the court's ruling:
The ceremony is permitted
because it does not break
any constitutional...
or legal regulations of the Republic.
Inspector arrest them all.
And confiscate the union's leaflets
newspapers and books.
Come on!
Get a move on!
The party's over!
Those of us who were not caught have
decided to go to a general strike.
Clearly we have to
paralyze the ports.
And the countryside.
Hello.
Comrade Soto has told us
we should turn to you.
That's right.
You three go to Clark's descent.
You two to make for
La Esperanza.
And us?
Over by El Cifre.
For the strike.
- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.
Please gentlemen.
Gentlemen it is essential
that urgent measures are taken.
Nearly all the estancias
in the territory...
are paralyzed by the strike.
It can't be that for the sake of
those foreign anarchists...
we are all in danger of ruin.
Excuse me gentlemen. A telegram
from Buenos Aires Mr. Governor.
Excuse me gentlemen.
- Yes.
Traders sort out their problems
and then sell more
whereas for us
the shearing is held up
- and the price of wool drops.
- Precisely.
Gentlemen
President Yrigoyen orders the
immediate release of the detained
and the opening
of the Workers' Society.
These Radicals
don't know what they're doing.
They think that by being lenient
they'll stop them.
They're dreamers!
We've been set free thanks to
the rural worker comrades.
Now we must fight for them.
We must achieve the first
rural workers agreement.
So they don't carry on
living like animals!
...and it will be presented
to the owners.
I'll read it to you.
"List of conditions:
First.
Bunks are abolished.
Second.
In each house for workers...
there shall be a washbasin to... to...
...to wash themselves.
Third. Lighting shall be
provided by the owner.
One packet of candles per month
for each worker.
Fourth. Each estancia
shall have a first aid kit...
with instructions in Spanish
and not in English.
Fifth. Minimum wage for sheep hands
horse hands and herdsmen
100 pesos. It's fair,
not what's paid at present.
Sixth. To encourage
the increase of the population...
preference will be given to workers
with families and with children.
Not as at present where only
single men are contracted.
Seventh. Landowners
must recognize...
as the only organization
representing the workers...
the General Workers' Federation
of Ro Gallegos
a member of the FORA."
That's all.
Mr. Manager, sir, we'd like
you to reply to the gentlemen.
The Rural Society will not enter
into dealings with an organization...
led by foreigners.
On no account.
Neither will we discuss the
running of our estancias.
That is our business
and ours alone.
So
the rural strike will continue
as far as its ultimate consequences.
Let's go.
Firstly gentlemen
we want to put your minds at rest.
Although we are far away
our interests are here.
And in Chile of course.
We are in full
agreement with you.
In Buenos Aires we have undertaken
extremely important dealings.
And I say extremely important
because there is as intermediary...
the President of the Republic.
On the other hand there are
the Armour and Swift meat exporters.
Putting pressure on through
North American Embassy?
Exactly.
Waiter, please.
But gentlemen the most urgent
problem is that we have to start...
with the shearing and the workers
are still on strike.
My dear friend don't forget that
we have a few little sheep.
In Buenos Aires the Association of
Free Workers has been constituted
and they're sending us the first
batch of a hundred collaborators.
Strike-breakers!
- Scabs! Blacklegs!
- Let's go!
No. Don't shoot to kill man.
Self defense.
We got them scared!
Inspector Michelli you are to
take 10 gendarmes out there...
and bring me those
criminals under arrest.
The gendarmes!
They'll shit themselves!
Shoot damn you!
So you're one of those
who beats rural workers are you?
For which land owner do you work?
They've killed Gracin!
Michelli the son of a bitch!
And he fled.
You're not going to escape so easily.
That's how to give it
to all these dogs.
Not like that comrade
he was injured.
Go and heal him if you can.
This is going from bad to worse
five gendarmes dead.
You have to go and see
what's happening.
While the judge tells us one thing
the governor says another.
Santa Cruz is a
bag full of cats!
The problem is serious.
There are many interests at stake.
There's even pressure from abroad.
I understand Minister, but
I'd like to have
more precise orders.
You spoke with the President.
Yes but he limited himself to saying:
"Go Lieutenant Colonel
and do your duty. "
Not a word more my friend
go and do your duty.
Minister, sir, I must
tell Your Excellency
that I've found here
that those responsible...
for the chaotic situation
in the territory of Santa Cruz...
are the authorities themselves.
And that the police
can be classified...
as appalling.
The rural worker is exploited
in the most primitive manner.
He is paid with checks or vouchers
which he has to exchange...
in the shops or stores of the
same companies that employ them.
Without exaggerating I must say...
that after having
worked for a year
he leaves as poor as when he started.
This Minister, is one of
the origins of the strikes...
of a revolutionary nature
and the cause of hatred
towards society.
- Does it seem reasonable Soto?
- Yes sir,
but we can't make any decision...
until Facn Grande
returns from El Deseado.
Tomorrow no?
What we cannot accept sir,
is handing over our weapons.
But why not Schultz?
Tell me why.
How can we be expected to hand in
our weapons? It's preposterous!
But most of them have
been stolen from the estancias.
Confiscated Your Honor.
Confiscated.
I think it's enough
that we hand over the hostages...
and call off the strike.
Appreciate the importance
gentlemen.
It would be the first agreement
for rural workers in Patagonia.
Sir, we will abide by
our comrades decision.
The assembly is sovereign.
45 days of strike we've won
and now they want to exchange
our weapons for a piece of paper.
Florentino Cuello.
You're not going to tell me sir,
that these are all the weapons?
Don't you worry
Lieutenant Colonel
Sixty-eight and El Toscano they'll
go shooting guanaco in the mountains.
They're not good honest working folk.
Alright friends
the party's over.
Now you have the agreement
you wanted
now get to work.
- Traitors!
- Madam!
Colonel...
I beg you Lieutenant Colonel sirs
accept our apologies and...
forgive the lady.
The thing is we're all very hurt...
by the outcome of your negotiations.
You've handed over the triumph
to the bandits.
You don't know what you're saying
Mr. Novas.
You must understand those of us
who work who live here
- ... we have the authority to speak.
- That's not disputed!
Maybe not yourself
but the others
those from Buenos Aires
who don't know the provinces
why don't they come and struggle here
in June with 30 degrees below zero...
and 2 meters of snow?
I beg you to calm down
remember there are also landowners...
who live in London and don't know
Patagonia even on the map.
Understand this Lieutenant Colonel
they've killed gendarmes
they've set fire to estancias and you
reward them giving them an agreement.
- You leave and this will explode.
- No.
If the landowners fulfill
their part of the agreement
peace will be definite.
In any case gentlemen
I've done no more than
carry out the orders
ofthe President.
Good night.
No comrade
no alcohol in here.
- It's just to counteract the fat.
- I beg you.
Alcohol only serves
to turn people brutish.
It's a weapon of the bourgeoisie.
Have a cup of tea.
You must be kidding friend.
To hell with gringo habits.
Eating mutton with a cup of tea?!
Comrades the bourgeois
reaction has begun.
That bloodsucker Fernndez
has thrown me out of the store
for being an agitator.
And they've left these comrade waiters
of the caf "La Armona" without jobs.
I assume responsibility
for declaring as from now
the boycott of Fernndez...
and "La Armona":
- Ready to go?
- Yes sir.
Look.
- Friend.
Old Felix that's all we needed.
I've been replaced
as Governor.
But that's absurd!
And Commander Zavala's
reports.
There you have it that's
the peacemaking he's left us.
This will never be sorted out.
Yes it will
in Buenos Aires.
Look here Felix as soon as
the new Governor arrives
I'm going to the capital.
Where are you going
with parcels and lists?
That I see you
in such a hurry.
To the congress
of the anarchlsts...
to speak
and be understood.
Explaln,
one moment if you will,
anarchist
what does it mean?
The immense
common front of workers,
who claim
the right to live.
The worker
who tolls and sweats,
tell me, how come
he can be badly off?
Because the mule
which eats straw
carries the grain
for another animal.
It's strange,
but I don't understand,
what does your
new allusion mean?
That the same
thing is happening...
to the worker
with his output.
That the same
thing is happening...
to the worker
with his output.
That the same
thing is happening...
to the worker
with his output.
And Mr. Mndez
when will you be travelling?
Next week
on the "Asturiano".
Bring the food.
Bring the food!
Serve the table!
Gentlemen the food is ready
but not one of us
is going to lift a finger.
There is someone seated here who
has been boycotted for exploiting
and you will not be served until
that bloodsucker Fernndez...
- ... leaves.
- But what are you saying?
- But this is outrageous.
- There was more!
- Sit down.
- You take a hand in the matter.
This is an insult
to the nation...
and to the ladies present here.
Nothing. Nothing! You can stamp with
rage we aren't lifting a finger.
Either the bloodsucker goes
or we don't serve!
Gentlemen! Gentlemen calm down!
What's the problem?
We'll serve ourselves.
- How's it going comrade?
- Good to see you.
Well and how are
things going at Paso Ibaez?
Very bad Mr. Font sir. Very bad.
They're forcing us
to get nasty.
It's the same in Las Heras.
They're saying the same everywhere:
"Forgive us Mr. Font
but we can't pay the raise. "
It's the order from Buenos Aires
from Gallegos from La Mercantil.
- I don't know what.
- Damn it
they've tricked us
with the piece of paper.
That's how it is.
For the moment
in Puerto Santa Cruz...
it's been decided to stop
the shearing of the eyes.
Comrades
I'm deeply grateful to you...
for the post of General
Secretary of the Federation
with which you have just honored me.
With the roads now passable
the news is beginning to arrive.
The landowners
are not fulfilling the agreement.
Comrades
have to go round the countryside...
and warn
the rural workers...
so that next summer
they find us ready and willing...
to face a fight that cannot
be put off any longer.
- And German?
- Everything's ready.
- Let's go.
- Let's go.
A few minutes of your patience.
There is some news.
The Chilean Embassy is
very concerned about this matter.
Another favorable fact.
The English representative...
warned the Chancery
that another strike...
would damage
British interests.
Very good we're not alone.
What's more he hinted
that in the Falklands
there are two warships
ready for any emergency.
These Radicals are beginning
to have problems. Port stoppages
strikes in La Forestal
internal conflicts in the party
and as an added extra the coming
presidential elections.
I don't think the government wants to
complicate things with a new conflict.
Gentlemen you may go in.
Stop!
Comrades in Gallegos
they've unmasked.
Politicians and exploiters
all mixed up in it.
They've started stirring it up.
- Any arrested?
- Arrested?
All of them!
Comrades take as delegated
the order for a general strike...
to each of the estancias
where you work.
We'll respond
to the owners provocation...
with the orders
of the organized workers.
Strike!
And form one single
great column of protest.
All the columns of strikers
must meet at Lago Argentino.
OK mister you're facing
the Red Council which will make...
the Socialist Revolution
in Patagonia.
El Toscano yours truly
my comrade No. 68 from Ushuaia
Frank Cross cowboy from Arizona
Jos Barra Chilean
but not Chilote [as an insult]
and Zacaras Caro
Patagonian by adoption.
OK mister, go handing over
all the weapons you have
money jewels...
The Red Council greets
the striking comrades.
Go on!
You're nothing but bandits!
Scant favor you're doing
to the workers' cause.
The strike has been called to
free the detained comrades.
And for the landowners
to comply with the agreement.
And that's all!
Alright.
But stirring things.
Any gendarme that's found...
And all the cash
to buy weapons.
Join us!
Not one of you lot has
anything to do with the strike.
This is a genuine
workers' movement!
When the strike ends
the Workers' Federation...
will pay you for the damages
and the provisions.
Now you have to come
with us as a hostage.
They'll wipe out the lot of you
Let's go.
The situation Lieutenant Colonel
is much more serious...
than you realized.
The territory is overrun
by bandits.
They kill land owners
rape their women.
They say they're going to raise
the red flag in the Plaza de Mayo.
The President
has decided that you...
shall command the troops once again.
Zavala you well know the high esteem
in which President Yrigoyen holds you.
Your responsibility
now is greater.
We run the risk
of losing the Patagonia.
Think of Chile.
Lieutenant Colonel we have
to finish once and for all...
with these anarchists.
Take them to the room.
Lieutenant Colonel sir
I'm going to settle the troops.
Go on then.
You arrive and I leave.
I've been called to Buenos Aires.
- Indeed!
- No problem.
- You'll get it all sorted.
- Yes definitively.
See here the workers
trust you.
The workers have let me down.
Farewell sir,
have a good trip.
The Spaniard Outerello is at
Puerto Santa Cruz and Paso Ibez.
In the north Jos Font
alias Facn Grande
in control of the Puerto Deseado
to Las Heras railway line.
In the foothills of the Andes
the leader Soto.
And somewhere about
the famous Red Council.
Lieutenant Arrieta take a truck
fifteen soldiers
go out in search ofthe Red Council
and on a mission to harass...
the Spaniard Soto.
Captain Arzeno the big group
will begin operations...
clearing up the center
and north of the area.
Excuse me Lieutenant
Colonel sir?
According to the information gathered
each column of strikers...
is four or five times
bigger than our troops.
Captain Arzeno we can't
make an academic war here.
The orders we have
are perfectly clear,
to utterly destroy the uprising.
Death sentence
Anyone who resists
will be executed.
Without batting an eyelid!
We have to stain
the Patagonia with blood.
May no one feel weak...
and may everyone
fulfil his duty.
Any questions?
Good.
Lieutenant Colonel sir
The gentlemen Matthews and Saunders
have asked to accompany us.
They could act as guides.
That's fine.
Very good sir.
Only this way can this land
continue being Argentina.
Thank you. Good afternoon.
Lieutenant Colonel sir.
A very hard campaign
awaits us.
May I give the troops
some time off?
Only until 10 p.m.
Tomorrow we rise at 5 a.m.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir.
Mayer take time off.
I'm told there are very
pretty girls here.
Thank you Lieutenant Colonel sir.
- Mayer.
- Sir.
Are you of German
descent or...?
German Lieutenant Colonel sir.
A good race Mayer. Good race.
- Viel Vergnugen.
- Danke schn' Herr Obertsleutnant.
Kneel down.
Kneel down!
Order fire.
- Aim!
- Aim!
- Fire!
- Fire!
The army! Soldiers!
Don't shoot!
Don't shoot it's Zavala!
Bring a sheet.
Flag to discuss peace terms.
Order a cease fire.
We want to tell you...
Take your hat off when
you speak to me eh?
We don't want to have
a confrontation with the army.
All we are asking is that
our detained comrades are freed...
and the rural agreement obeyed.
I am here in person
so that there can be no doubt...
regarding my position
unconditional surrender...
or the death penalty
for all who resist.
We were hoping you had come
to see that the agreement was obeyed...
- ... which you yourself signed.
- and you lot didn't obey.
- The landowners...
- The owners and all of you lot.
All! Look don't talk to me
about agreements.
This is all that matters.
Good. With regard to your demand
we must consult
with the ranch delegates.
Wait a moment.
Sirs we are at war.
We must act swiftly.
We have to rescue the hostages and
save the blood of our soldiers.
And if when these criminals
come we receive them with gunfire?
The leaders dead the Chilean
scum will surrender immediately.
If you give the order,
Lieutenant Colonel sir...
But Colonel...
What are you doing?
They'll kill us all.
There are many strikers
out there.
And I...
I have a family
three children.
I have six children.
Do you realize Captain?
Civilians can't be brought in
to deal with these things.
It has been decided...
It has been decided
to call an assembly.
As from now we will
free the hostages...
to show them that
we have nothing against you lot...
and the only thing we ask
is justice.
I said unconditional surrender.
You have 2 hours to decide.
And remember,
my hand will not tremble.
They won't surrender,
all the worse for them.
And so?
The surrender will be accepted only
when freedom is given...
to the strikers and you
assure us of fulfillment...
ofthe rural agreement.
Who is he?
The owner of La Barrancosa.
Why did you kill him?
- It was the soldiers.
- You are the murderers
because you provoked this situation.
Captain four shots.
What Lieutenant Colonel sir?
Fire him four shots!
- Come on...
- Sergeant!
Come on Commander don't joke.
You four seize him.
You lot seize the rest.
No! No no! Let me go!
Zavala! Zavala! No! Please!
Zavala no please!
Let me go! Let me go! Zavala!
Zavala please!
- Zavala please!
- Aim!
- Fire!
- Zavala please! No!
"Lieutenant Colonel Zavala disembarked
at Gallegos on his way to Deseado. "
Just as well.
The Commander is a guarantee.
- Hurrah for the strike damn it!
- Hurrah!
Down with the exploiters!
Stop this all of you!
I didn't know there were
so many thieves amongst you!
Drop everything and get out!
Come on friend...
Get out I said!
Alcohol is our
worst enemy.
Damn them they're like priests.
Here you have him Facn
quite tame.
Do you remember when
he put you in the stocks?
Goddamn son of a bitch!
I can still feel
the lashes you gave me.
No leave him!
He's alone and unarmed.
Remove his badges he doesn't
deserve them for bad police.
And now let him go.
It's not the done thing to
kick a man when he's down.
Look out! They're gendarmes.
Ready!
It's not the police it's the army.
Lower your weapons!
Take aim.
Fire!
Withdraw!
All back to the camp!
Mr. friend Martense
how's business?
So-so.
With passengers?
No I'm with my comrade
on Federation business.
Get out of here! Right now!
They're shooting
all the Federates!
- But who's shooting?
- Well who do you think?
Your beloved Zavala.
But where? Who?
Who? Well Ramn's already
taken care of.
- Outerello?
- The same. As you hear it.
And in Caadn Len
he's left them scattered.
About a hundred are left dead.
Indeed they make you dig your grave
they can't be bothered even with that.
And when the ground is hard
they make a pile ofyou,
they sprinkle it with petrol
and then set alight to it.
Dead when attempting
to flee: 13.
Dead when attempting
to flee: 13.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir?
I need to tell you something.
Isn't it too much punishment
for what these men have done?
Do you think I
enjoy shooting?
There's not other remedy here.
There are too few of us
to dominate them.
In this empty wilderness
the only way is being hard handed.
Last night we took 400 prisoners.
Do you think we're able to keep watch
day and night over so many rebels?
We're running the risk now
of losing Patagonia.
Think of Chile Captain.
Think of Chile.
They must be scab blacklegs.
We'll stop them.
Come on!
It's Facn Grande that's all.
Get ready.
Ready!
- Get ready.
- Ready!
Ready!
Quickly!
Aim!
- Aim!
- Aim!
Stop!
- Fire!
- Fire!
Attack!
Attack. Come on.
Come on! Come on forward!
Stand up to them!
- To the ground.
- To the ground!
Fire!
Attack!
Keep firing damn it!
Cover him! Cover him!
Stop! Stop firing!
Damn it.
It was Zavala.
We made him back down.
We made a heck of a mistake.
You're going to worry now?
Let's celebrate!
You're already drunk
again friend.
Don't do that to me.
Come Mr. Font sir the telegraph.
Facn Grande is receiving.
Put this.
Friend Jos Font
Edward Matthews
offers himself as a mediator.
Please travel to Jaramillo.
Guarantee offered.
Commander Zavala...
...open to positive solutions.
OK tell him that I've
already set off for there and...
thank the gringo Matthews.
Facn give yourself up!
I'm here to discuss peace terms
with Commander Zavala.
Who want to talk to me?
Arrest him for murdering
Argentine soldiers.
That's treason!
If you're a man
I'll fight you with my hands tied!
Take him away!
I'm Facn Grande's second in command.
I'm here to make a pact.
Get down. Come on!
Get down!
Wait a minute
I'm the Gaucho Cuello
delegate of the Fede...
...of the Workers' Federation.
You take care ofthe other one.
Take them away.
Come on. Walk!
Come on!
Get up. Get him up.
Come on walk.
Walk! Come on!
Come on look sharp. Just there.
Just there.
Get ready.
Aim!
You don't kill a gaucho like that!
Fire!
Load.
Come on.
Lieutenant Colonel sir we good
men have organized ourselves
as a white guard and we're here
to offer you our support
That's fine.
You may join the column.
We want to tell you that the
Rural Society is to put your name...
forward as military governor
of Santa Cruz.
Gentlemen I'm not guided
by any personal ambition.
I'm doing my duty
as I understand I must.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir.
The Red Council.
So you lot wanted to implant
socialism in Patagonia.
A good catch Chief.
A photo for the Buenos Aires
newspapers.
So the readers find out
what these strikers are like.
Let them see the armbands clearly.
That's it.
I think friend Zavala that it
would be best to leave these alive
so that public opinion finds out
what the Patagonian reds are like.
Very good
friend Mndez Garzn.
We'll place them at the disposal
of the Judge.
Ready now!
As I feared. When they attacked us
as a mob I understood it all.
Antonio all that's left to us
is to fight confront them.
Fight? With these men?
Most of them don't even know
how to use a weapon.
They must be taught!
Listen German
the comrades are already looking
at us askance you know?
They have to be spoken to be prepared.
For two and a half months now
we've been out in the countryside.
Sleeping out in the open
most of the time.
Eating whatever there is.
We don't even have tobacco left
Antonio that's struggling.
You have to be organized.
You Spaniards
you talk a lot...
but you're not organized no discipline.
How many weapons are there?
Some fifty rifles
and about a hundred revolvers.
Ammunition?
There'd be ten shots per gun.
Enough to hold out.
And when they're all gone?
We'll fight them with knives.
Take aim.
Lower your weapons!
Unload!
Load. Unload.
Good comrade and?
What are we waiting for?
Tonight's assembly.
No my people want
the assembly right now.
That's no problem.
They're more aroused.
Also if there's no shearing
we'll be spending a hard winter.
We'll do what the majority decides.
Because what this is about here
comrades
is making humanity
understand
that everything can be achieved
through reason and freedom.
Anarchist ideas
are the only ones...
Shut up big mouth!
No comrade. That's against
our principles of freedom.
To interrupt a speech
is to cut freedom.
These big mouths talk and talk
but we have the troops on top of us.
For they must be made to understand,
that weapons are products...
of stupidity
and irrationality.
Alright but cut it out comrade.
We're wasting time.
Everyone here knows that Zavala
is camped at Ro Perro.
Right here!
So we have to decide right now
what we're going to do.
Like what are we going to do comrade?
Resist! Resist with the weapons!
Or maybe you don't know that the murderer
Zavala has killed Ramn Outerello...
and dozens of comrades
at Caadn Len?
But where do you get that from?
What did you see it yourself perhaps?
I didn't see it. But the person
who told me deserves to be believed.
Ah! You didn't see it
you were told then!
He wouldn't have seen them
but we did see...
how they attacked us without warning
and we lost nine comrades there.
I think we mustn't
expect mercy
neither am I prepared to ask it.
Comrade you've limited me here
with my turn to speak.
No comrade stop him.
Now it's up to us to talk
to the Chilean rural workers.
We don't want any
kind of problems...
with the authorities.
The only thing we do want is
to be allowed to work in peace.
That we're treated properly
and paid as we deserve.
That's why we think...
that we ought to go and talk
with the military to lift this strike.
Comrades. Comrades!
The only way to win
is to fight.
Fight to the last man!
Only one possibility is left for us
to resist!
To defend this estancia
with trenches...
and turn back
those who attack us!
I propose we carry on
with out tactics
occupy ranches
and take hostages.
And when the army arrives
disappear.
Hide ourselves in the woods
in the mountain region
until they have to
come to terms with us.
Because without the workers
the estancias can't function!
No comrade if we split up
they'll go catching us one by one.
We must resist
all together, here.
But comrade
if the army can't
beat us with 100 armed men...
they'll send 200 or 1000.
And us? What are we going to
fight against Zavala with? Ah?
With our bare hands? No we have to
agree terms arrive at an arrangement.
Is it that perhaps we didn't do
it in the last strike?
Comrades we can't
throw out of the window...
all the sacrifices
we've made.
You want us to talk
to the army? So be it!
We'll elect two comrades
to have an interview with Zavala...
and ask for conditions.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir,
two strikers
ask to be received.
Show them in.
Go in.
Excuse us.
Apologies for interrupting your meal.
What do you want?
We represent
the Workers' Federation.
We've come to talk
as equals
about the conditions for an agreement.
As equals.
- What nationality are you?
- Spanish.
- And the other?
- Polish.
And you two rebelling foreigners
want to impose conditions on me?
But conditions for what?
Sons of bitches!
Conditions for what?
Sergeant!
Come out. Come on come on!
Captain
go up to the column.
A sargeant and a white flag.
Go and ask them for
unconditional surrender.
Yes sir Lieutenant Colonel.
You've all seen
how insolently they behave.
I'm not going to let them
raise their heads.
Especially Soto.
That Antonio Soto
who's filled them with those ideas.
And we'll have done
with all this for good and all.
Ready. Aim.
Brothers throw down those guns
embrace the cause...
- ... of the libertarian ideal.
- Fire!
Aren't you the leaders
of the Workers' Federation?
Yes sir.
Order from Lieutenant Colonel Zavala.
Unconditional surrender.
Hand over of hostages
horses and weapons.
Otherwise we shall not
hesitate to proceed.
Didn't Lieutenant Colonel Zavala
receive our delegation?
No delegation
will be received.
That is the last offer.
We won't decide
without consulting the Assembly.
As you like.
You have 2 hours.
Don't accept. They'll shoot you all
not a single one will be left alive.
Comrades don't trust
Zavala don't surrender.
You're laborers you're workers!
Comrades carry on with the strike!
To triumph definitively so as to
form a new society...
where there are no poor or rich
where there are no weapons
where there is happiness and respect
for human beings!
Let's get going.
...tire ourselves out like beasts.
We must make
the trenches now.
Let's return to the camp.
And I'm saying it plainly and clearly
so there's no doubt left:
The only way to win
is with weapons!
Comrades I move that we
surrender ourselves unconditionally.
I didn't expect this end.
I didn't expect it.
Come on German
there's nothing left to do here.
No Antonio I'm staying.
I respect the decision
of the majority.
But it's suicide!
They'll shoot you first!
I've always complied with
the decision of my comrades
even if they were mistaken.
Today they've chosen death.
I too respect it
but I'm not meat
to be thrown to the dogs.
If it's to fight I'll stay
but the comrades
don't want to fight.
I do.
I'll carry on fighting.
Come on German
very near here is that paradise
you were seeking so much.
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Damn it!
Draw out your gun.
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Stop you bastards
it's me Soto!
Lieutenant Colonel sir
that's the Chilean
who proposed the surrender.
Good.
This is the German Shultz.
So you're
the great revolutionary.
Put him to one side.
Let's see the ranch delegates
one step forward!
One step forward
the ranch delegates!
It seems there are no delegates eh?
Did they all die?
It's OK they'll appear soon enough.
Find out about Soto.
Lieutenant Colonel sir, maybe not that one.
He's the only mechanic in the area
we might need him.
Leave him.
So you've got new clothes.
Can you tell me
where you got them?
Captain undress them
and tie them to the fence.
Let them spend the night naked!
I now have the report
Lieutenant colonel, sir.
Soto and three others are
fleeing by horse to Chile.
Send out Lieutenant Arrleta
wlth ten men,
and bring him back alive or dead.
- What's your name?
- Esperidin Gonzlez sir.
Now you go straight
to your boss's place...
And from now on
if he orders you to be a dog
you get down on all fours
and you bark.
- Is that understood?
- Alright sir.
And whoever lets the candle go out
I'll blow the lid off his brains!
OK?
Yes?
Aren't you sleeping Lt. Col. sir?
The condemned are already
in the shearing shed.
Each with a candle
to make it easier to guard them.
Very good.
For tomorrow
Does the order stands or...?
Yes Captain yes!
The order stands!
Or do you want me to let
them all go free?
It's not about
pardoning or punishing here
it's about putting an end
to these rebels.
You prefer to kill a hundred leaders
rather than some day...
a thousand innocents dying.
They may say I was
a bloodthirsty military
but they'll never say
I was a disobedient one.
- Not in the European war...
- Come on.
Ready.
Aim.
Fire!
Aim.
Fire!
Aim.
Fire!
Aim.
Fire!
Laborers, reduced from 120
to 80 pesos a month.
Wagon drlvers, from 130 to 90 pesos
Sheep hands, from 140 to 100 pesos.
Ranch cooks
from 160 to 120 pesos.
Herders per day
from 25 to 12 pesos.
These wages replace
those from the previous agreement...
which is
definitively annulled.
The memory of your action
in Patagonia...
will remain in the memory
of its inhabitants
as a lesson on what inspired
men are capable of...
in the fulfillment of their duty
and in the greatness ofthe nation.
Very good!
Friends.
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
And so say all of us!
And so say all of us!
And so say all of us!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
And so say all of us!
Hip-hip! Hurrah!
of Osvaldo Bayer.
For narrative reasons some of the facts
names and ranks have been altered.
Buenos Aires January 1923
REBELLION IN PATAGONIA
Son of a bitch!
Ro Gallegos 3 years before
Things have to be said without
mincing words comrades.
Hotel owners are all
a bunch of exploiters.
Yes! Despicable exploiters!
The waiters and kitchen
staff of Hotel Argentino...
work from 6 in the morning
through to midnight.
And for that they pay us
a miserable 80 pesos!
And anyone who dares to look
askance at it is fired...
and isn't able to get work
in any other hotel.
There are two alternatives comrades:
Either die of hunger
or kowtow to them.
We have to fuel the fire comrades!
There's no chance of winning here:
I demand that the Federation...
calls a strike in the hotels.
Because otherwise we'll
do justice with our own hands...
and not an exploiter will be left
with a head in all of Ro Gallegos.
Starting with my boss
the bloodsucker Carballeira.
One moment comrades!
Wait a moment.
Permission to speak.
Go on.
You're right
but we must be disciplined.
If hotels have to be burnt
we'll burn them
but it must be by a
majority resolution.
Because there are two fundamental
words that shouldn't be forgotten...
in anarcho-syndicalism:
discipline and organization.
Comrade Graa.
Comrades the time has come
for plain speaking.
The issues about...
organization and discipline
you've been listening to
leave out human values.
Speak plainly then.
OK but say once and for all.
Do you agree with
the hotel strike? Yes or no?
Comrade Secretary General
you're restricting me
in my turn to speak.
You're right comrade.
But be concrete please.
I'm being asked for
definitions here
but I'm replying
that before a strike...
it's preferable to know
where the individual's going.
What the revolution is for.
Well said Kropotkin
that revolutions...
Comrade Graa we'll discuss
that in the ideology lessons.
Right now we're dealing
with the hotel staff strike.
Begging your pardon.
Comrade Danielewski
reports now.
Comrades I have to
denounce the Hotel Espaa...
which pays Chilean workers
half wages...
just for being Chilean.
We cab drivers...
inform the Federation
of our solidarity...
with the strike by not driving
a single passenger...
to the hotels! Not one!
- Strike!
- Yes strike!
I want to tell you that I've come
from Puerto Santa Cruz...
I want to tell you that I've come
from Puerto Santa Cruz...
to bring you the solidarity
of the stevedores
- ... waiters and wagoners.
- Well done comrade!
And to inform you that if
you declare a strike
we will also stop work in
the hotels of Puerto Santa Cruz.
Long live the comrades
of Santa Cruz! Hurrah!
- Long live anarchy!
- Hurrah!
Comrades... Comrades...
Comrades
Patagonian exploiters...
value men less than
mules or packhorses
since today one worker
is replaced by another...
without any cost.
- Well said.
- Very well said.
We're workers from
all parts of the world.
Isn't that so German?
Eh Poles?
And you Chilean comrades.
And we are here
united by solidarity.
Today that solidarity is called:
Support for the comrades
hotel workers.
I ask then...
for us to vote for the strike
for an indeterminate time
until we win.
I would say my friend
what we need now...
is a bit of organization.
Nearly all the landowners
are with us.
That's good. I'm glad..
For if the workers unite...
No no no.
A thrust is needed.
Someone directing.
Who directs and knows
how to defend our interests.
What do you think my friend?
We need a manager
for our organization.
Finding one in Ro Gallegos
will be hard.
No no.
We've already found him.
And he's very near.
Here at this table.
You Mndez Garzn.
But sirs are you forgetting that I'm
the Governor of the territory?
What would they say in Buenos Aires?
Imagine
Governor of Santa Cruz
and Manager of the Rural Society.
Don't you think there's
an incompatibility?
Do you think so?
From both jobs you will have
a better perspective.
What's more
think of your future.
Public office
is very unstable.
You're a Conservative
the National Government is Radical.
Gentlemen I would like to thank you
for your presence in my house.
Thank you Carballeira we are
in solidarity with the only hotel...
- ... which managed to scorn the strike.
- Thank you.
And how did you achieve it?
Well quite simply
with people of goodwill
with responsible workers.
Out! Out! Scabs! Blacklegs!
I'll kick your arse!
Look what you've done! Look!
- Look at that pan!
- Get out!
- Out!
- Let me be comrade.
- I have seven kids.
- That's nonsense.
Leave everything
we'll help you.
Come on! Be off! Out!
See German
that's what I'm lacking.
A woman.
A companion.
Of bourgeois upbringing
as Graa would say.
But you won't deny
that a good pair...
A woman!
To love. To love her well.
Damn it how nice!
One thing or the other.
Come on old man
Because I had one
I know what I'm saying.
Because I had one
I know what I'm saying.
First it was ideas...
and love.
Then when the kids came...
and jail.
Look what I gave her, poor thing.
My times in jail...
and the kids going hungry.
- Did you leave them in Germany?
- Yes.
With the promise to bring them
over soon to enjoy the freedom
of justice!
You certainly chose well.
Even in the uttermost corner
there's egoist exploitation.
You thought you were coming
to paradise?
Look I'll join you in the fight
until we win
and then go to live with my own ones
in earthly paradise
far away from men.
And where's that?
Listen I'm only telling it to you.
Among forests and mountains
by Lago Argentino.
- Blood sucker!
- Criminal!
- Bastard!
- Exploiter!
Comrades make way!
- Bloodsucker slave-driver.
- Exploiter.
Gentlemen... Gentlemen I'm here
on the advice of the Judge...
to settle this dispute.
A legitimate weapon
of the workers.
- Yes yes apologize.
- Not to us.
The ones you should apologize
to are the workers...
you fired.
The comrades.
What's more they must be paid
the wages owing up to today.
And deposit in the Workers' Society
1500 pesos as a fine sir.
1500?
As a fine?
Yes. For legal damages.
For the cost of organizing
the boycott against you
printing of flyers
and moral damages.
The staff's wages.
- Good!
- Well done comrade!
- 1500 pesos!
- Bravo!
- Good!
- Bravo!
Children of the people
chains oppress you
and that injustice
cannot continue.
If your existence
is a world of troubles,
I'd sooner die
than slavery.
Those bourgeois,
so selflsh,
who thus despise
humanlty.
They shall be swept away
by anarchists
to the strident shout of freedom.
Red flag,
suffer no more,
exploitatlon
must succumb.
Rise up, loyal people,
to the shout of soclal revolution.
Dignity,
is not to be asked,
only unity
can demand It.
Our shields
you shall not smash.
clumsy bourgeols,
get back! Get back!
Comrades. Comrades
Comrades with this money...
we'll be able to buy
one of the most-prized weapons...
of anarcho-syndicalism.
- A printing press!
- Very good!
A printing press to clarify things
for our rural comrades...
and so that the ignominy
of exploitation is ended.
Comrades.
don't think that ranch owners
will be convinced by words.
We know it comrade.
We know that the landowners
are very strong and powerful.
But we also know that we have
the fundamental weapon...
to overcome them.
The strike!
- Long live the strike!
- Hurrah!
Silence comrades.
Comrades
to carry to the final victory...
the black banner of anarchy...
and the red of syndicalism
we must start from the bottom.
Comrades we must affiliate
al the rural workers...
to our federation.
Here.
Look Mr. Soto
I don't understand anything
of politics but I do try to...
help the rural workers
you can count on me.
I expected no less.
You know that I earn my pesos
with my fleet of wagons.
But I've always been
on the side of the underlings.
More than once I've been thrashed
for demanding fair wages.
That isn't forgotten.
And when one has to fight I fight
that's why I'm called "Facn Grande".
You are a very well-respected man
that's why we're asking you to go
affiliating the rural workers for us.
Certainly. Leave it to me.
Look friends
do you know what this is?
Here the abuses of the
bad bosses are denounced.
And you know what you have to do
join the federation...
and support the workers' society
which defends you.
Yes man which defends you.
From the bosses
and from the police too.
And from that bastard
of a governor we have.
Come on we mustn't be afraid.
In this city we have
a nest of rats.
Rats who want to destroy
nationality
nationhood ownership.
But my friend don't be scared
by those crazy anarchists.
They're nothing more than a bunch of
mouthy simpleton Spanish immigrants.
Simpletons? The Russian Revolution
was made by simpletons like them.
Remember Lenin himself had to
get rid of 20 thousand anarchists.
Go on.
Imagine sir, if Lenin
had killed them all
what would we have to do?
Read. Read the terms carefully.
They don't acknowledge nationhood
frontiers or anything.
Now they're preparing a tribute
to a man who was executed in Spain.
Now that's a provocation.
I will not permit excess.
Take care Governor I'm warning you
that I'll report...
any breach of the Law.
Your Honor
don't think you'll intimidate me
with your relationship with Yrigoyen.
I too have my friends
and in more powerful places
than the Presidential Palace.
Sir, excuse me but
you may not go in.
Do you know what you're doing?
You are lacking respect
for my position as Judge!
But sir it's an order
from the governor.
What governor! Bullshit!
Tell that gentleman to go
and govern the Rural Society.
Gentlemen I'm here in person
to advise you of the court's ruling:
The ceremony is permitted
because it does not break
any constitutional...
or legal regulations of the Republic.
Inspector arrest them all.
And confiscate the union's leaflets
newspapers and books.
Come on!
Get a move on!
The party's over!
Those of us who were not caught have
decided to go to a general strike.
Clearly we have to
paralyze the ports.
And the countryside.
Hello.
Comrade Soto has told us
we should turn to you.
That's right.
You three go to Clark's descent.
You two to make for
La Esperanza.
And us?
Over by El Cifre.
For the strike.
- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.
Please gentlemen.
Gentlemen it is essential
that urgent measures are taken.
Nearly all the estancias
in the territory...
are paralyzed by the strike.
It can't be that for the sake of
those foreign anarchists...
we are all in danger of ruin.
Excuse me gentlemen. A telegram
from Buenos Aires Mr. Governor.
Excuse me gentlemen.
- Yes.
Traders sort out their problems
and then sell more
whereas for us
the shearing is held up
- and the price of wool drops.
- Precisely.
Gentlemen
President Yrigoyen orders the
immediate release of the detained
and the opening
of the Workers' Society.
These Radicals
don't know what they're doing.
They think that by being lenient
they'll stop them.
They're dreamers!
We've been set free thanks to
the rural worker comrades.
Now we must fight for them.
We must achieve the first
rural workers agreement.
So they don't carry on
living like animals!
...and it will be presented
to the owners.
I'll read it to you.
"List of conditions:
First.
Bunks are abolished.
Second.
In each house for workers...
there shall be a washbasin to... to...
...to wash themselves.
Third. Lighting shall be
provided by the owner.
One packet of candles per month
for each worker.
Fourth. Each estancia
shall have a first aid kit...
with instructions in Spanish
and not in English.
Fifth. Minimum wage for sheep hands
horse hands and herdsmen
100 pesos. It's fair,
not what's paid at present.
Sixth. To encourage
the increase of the population...
preference will be given to workers
with families and with children.
Not as at present where only
single men are contracted.
Seventh. Landowners
must recognize...
as the only organization
representing the workers...
the General Workers' Federation
of Ro Gallegos
a member of the FORA."
That's all.
Mr. Manager, sir, we'd like
you to reply to the gentlemen.
The Rural Society will not enter
into dealings with an organization...
led by foreigners.
On no account.
Neither will we discuss the
running of our estancias.
That is our business
and ours alone.
So
the rural strike will continue
as far as its ultimate consequences.
Let's go.
Firstly gentlemen
we want to put your minds at rest.
Although we are far away
our interests are here.
And in Chile of course.
We are in full
agreement with you.
In Buenos Aires we have undertaken
extremely important dealings.
And I say extremely important
because there is as intermediary...
the President of the Republic.
On the other hand there are
the Armour and Swift meat exporters.
Putting pressure on through
North American Embassy?
Exactly.
Waiter, please.
But gentlemen the most urgent
problem is that we have to start...
with the shearing and the workers
are still on strike.
My dear friend don't forget that
we have a few little sheep.
In Buenos Aires the Association of
Free Workers has been constituted
and they're sending us the first
batch of a hundred collaborators.
Strike-breakers!
- Scabs! Blacklegs!
- Let's go!
No. Don't shoot to kill man.
Self defense.
We got them scared!
Inspector Michelli you are to
take 10 gendarmes out there...
and bring me those
criminals under arrest.
The gendarmes!
They'll shit themselves!
Shoot damn you!
So you're one of those
who beats rural workers are you?
For which land owner do you work?
They've killed Gracin!
Michelli the son of a bitch!
And he fled.
You're not going to escape so easily.
That's how to give it
to all these dogs.
Not like that comrade
he was injured.
Go and heal him if you can.
This is going from bad to worse
five gendarmes dead.
You have to go and see
what's happening.
While the judge tells us one thing
the governor says another.
Santa Cruz is a
bag full of cats!
The problem is serious.
There are many interests at stake.
There's even pressure from abroad.
I understand Minister, but
I'd like to have
more precise orders.
You spoke with the President.
Yes but he limited himself to saying:
"Go Lieutenant Colonel
and do your duty. "
Not a word more my friend
go and do your duty.
Minister, sir, I must
tell Your Excellency
that I've found here
that those responsible...
for the chaotic situation
in the territory of Santa Cruz...
are the authorities themselves.
And that the police
can be classified...
as appalling.
The rural worker is exploited
in the most primitive manner.
He is paid with checks or vouchers
which he has to exchange...
in the shops or stores of the
same companies that employ them.
Without exaggerating I must say...
that after having
worked for a year
he leaves as poor as when he started.
This Minister, is one of
the origins of the strikes...
of a revolutionary nature
and the cause of hatred
towards society.
- Does it seem reasonable Soto?
- Yes sir,
but we can't make any decision...
until Facn Grande
returns from El Deseado.
Tomorrow no?
What we cannot accept sir,
is handing over our weapons.
But why not Schultz?
Tell me why.
How can we be expected to hand in
our weapons? It's preposterous!
But most of them have
been stolen from the estancias.
Confiscated Your Honor.
Confiscated.
I think it's enough
that we hand over the hostages...
and call off the strike.
Appreciate the importance
gentlemen.
It would be the first agreement
for rural workers in Patagonia.
Sir, we will abide by
our comrades decision.
The assembly is sovereign.
45 days of strike we've won
and now they want to exchange
our weapons for a piece of paper.
Florentino Cuello.
You're not going to tell me sir,
that these are all the weapons?
Don't you worry
Lieutenant Colonel
Sixty-eight and El Toscano they'll
go shooting guanaco in the mountains.
They're not good honest working folk.
Alright friends
the party's over.
Now you have the agreement
you wanted
now get to work.
- Traitors!
- Madam!
Colonel...
I beg you Lieutenant Colonel sirs
accept our apologies and...
forgive the lady.
The thing is we're all very hurt...
by the outcome of your negotiations.
You've handed over the triumph
to the bandits.
You don't know what you're saying
Mr. Novas.
You must understand those of us
who work who live here
- ... we have the authority to speak.
- That's not disputed!
Maybe not yourself
but the others
those from Buenos Aires
who don't know the provinces
why don't they come and struggle here
in June with 30 degrees below zero...
and 2 meters of snow?
I beg you to calm down
remember there are also landowners...
who live in London and don't know
Patagonia even on the map.
Understand this Lieutenant Colonel
they've killed gendarmes
they've set fire to estancias and you
reward them giving them an agreement.
- You leave and this will explode.
- No.
If the landowners fulfill
their part of the agreement
peace will be definite.
In any case gentlemen
I've done no more than
carry out the orders
ofthe President.
Good night.
No comrade
no alcohol in here.
- It's just to counteract the fat.
- I beg you.
Alcohol only serves
to turn people brutish.
It's a weapon of the bourgeoisie.
Have a cup of tea.
You must be kidding friend.
To hell with gringo habits.
Eating mutton with a cup of tea?!
Comrades the bourgeois
reaction has begun.
That bloodsucker Fernndez
has thrown me out of the store
for being an agitator.
And they've left these comrade waiters
of the caf "La Armona" without jobs.
I assume responsibility
for declaring as from now
the boycott of Fernndez...
and "La Armona":
- Ready to go?
- Yes sir.
Look.
- Friend.
Old Felix that's all we needed.
I've been replaced
as Governor.
But that's absurd!
And Commander Zavala's
reports.
There you have it that's
the peacemaking he's left us.
This will never be sorted out.
Yes it will
in Buenos Aires.
Look here Felix as soon as
the new Governor arrives
I'm going to the capital.
Where are you going
with parcels and lists?
That I see you
in such a hurry.
To the congress
of the anarchlsts...
to speak
and be understood.
Explaln,
one moment if you will,
anarchist
what does it mean?
The immense
common front of workers,
who claim
the right to live.
The worker
who tolls and sweats,
tell me, how come
he can be badly off?
Because the mule
which eats straw
carries the grain
for another animal.
It's strange,
but I don't understand,
what does your
new allusion mean?
That the same
thing is happening...
to the worker
with his output.
That the same
thing is happening...
to the worker
with his output.
That the same
thing is happening...
to the worker
with his output.
And Mr. Mndez
when will you be travelling?
Next week
on the "Asturiano".
Bring the food.
Bring the food!
Serve the table!
Gentlemen the food is ready
but not one of us
is going to lift a finger.
There is someone seated here who
has been boycotted for exploiting
and you will not be served until
that bloodsucker Fernndez...
- ... leaves.
- But what are you saying?
- But this is outrageous.
- There was more!
- Sit down.
- You take a hand in the matter.
This is an insult
to the nation...
and to the ladies present here.
Nothing. Nothing! You can stamp with
rage we aren't lifting a finger.
Either the bloodsucker goes
or we don't serve!
Gentlemen! Gentlemen calm down!
What's the problem?
We'll serve ourselves.
- How's it going comrade?
- Good to see you.
Well and how are
things going at Paso Ibaez?
Very bad Mr. Font sir. Very bad.
They're forcing us
to get nasty.
It's the same in Las Heras.
They're saying the same everywhere:
"Forgive us Mr. Font
but we can't pay the raise. "
It's the order from Buenos Aires
from Gallegos from La Mercantil.
- I don't know what.
- Damn it
they've tricked us
with the piece of paper.
That's how it is.
For the moment
in Puerto Santa Cruz...
it's been decided to stop
the shearing of the eyes.
Comrades
I'm deeply grateful to you...
for the post of General
Secretary of the Federation
with which you have just honored me.
With the roads now passable
the news is beginning to arrive.
The landowners
are not fulfilling the agreement.
Comrades
have to go round the countryside...
and warn
the rural workers...
so that next summer
they find us ready and willing...
to face a fight that cannot
be put off any longer.
- And German?
- Everything's ready.
- Let's go.
- Let's go.
A few minutes of your patience.
There is some news.
The Chilean Embassy is
very concerned about this matter.
Another favorable fact.
The English representative...
warned the Chancery
that another strike...
would damage
British interests.
Very good we're not alone.
What's more he hinted
that in the Falklands
there are two warships
ready for any emergency.
These Radicals are beginning
to have problems. Port stoppages
strikes in La Forestal
internal conflicts in the party
and as an added extra the coming
presidential elections.
I don't think the government wants to
complicate things with a new conflict.
Gentlemen you may go in.
Stop!
Comrades in Gallegos
they've unmasked.
Politicians and exploiters
all mixed up in it.
They've started stirring it up.
- Any arrested?
- Arrested?
All of them!
Comrades take as delegated
the order for a general strike...
to each of the estancias
where you work.
We'll respond
to the owners provocation...
with the orders
of the organized workers.
Strike!
And form one single
great column of protest.
All the columns of strikers
must meet at Lago Argentino.
OK mister you're facing
the Red Council which will make...
the Socialist Revolution
in Patagonia.
El Toscano yours truly
my comrade No. 68 from Ushuaia
Frank Cross cowboy from Arizona
Jos Barra Chilean
but not Chilote [as an insult]
and Zacaras Caro
Patagonian by adoption.
OK mister, go handing over
all the weapons you have
money jewels...
The Red Council greets
the striking comrades.
Go on!
You're nothing but bandits!
Scant favor you're doing
to the workers' cause.
The strike has been called to
free the detained comrades.
And for the landowners
to comply with the agreement.
And that's all!
Alright.
But stirring things.
Any gendarme that's found...
And all the cash
to buy weapons.
Join us!
Not one of you lot has
anything to do with the strike.
This is a genuine
workers' movement!
When the strike ends
the Workers' Federation...
will pay you for the damages
and the provisions.
Now you have to come
with us as a hostage.
They'll wipe out the lot of you
Let's go.
The situation Lieutenant Colonel
is much more serious...
than you realized.
The territory is overrun
by bandits.
They kill land owners
rape their women.
They say they're going to raise
the red flag in the Plaza de Mayo.
The President
has decided that you...
shall command the troops once again.
Zavala you well know the high esteem
in which President Yrigoyen holds you.
Your responsibility
now is greater.
We run the risk
of losing the Patagonia.
Think of Chile.
Lieutenant Colonel we have
to finish once and for all...
with these anarchists.
Take them to the room.
Lieutenant Colonel sir
I'm going to settle the troops.
Go on then.
You arrive and I leave.
I've been called to Buenos Aires.
- Indeed!
- No problem.
- You'll get it all sorted.
- Yes definitively.
See here the workers
trust you.
The workers have let me down.
Farewell sir,
have a good trip.
The Spaniard Outerello is at
Puerto Santa Cruz and Paso Ibez.
In the north Jos Font
alias Facn Grande
in control of the Puerto Deseado
to Las Heras railway line.
In the foothills of the Andes
the leader Soto.
And somewhere about
the famous Red Council.
Lieutenant Arrieta take a truck
fifteen soldiers
go out in search ofthe Red Council
and on a mission to harass...
the Spaniard Soto.
Captain Arzeno the big group
will begin operations...
clearing up the center
and north of the area.
Excuse me Lieutenant
Colonel sir?
According to the information gathered
each column of strikers...
is four or five times
bigger than our troops.
Captain Arzeno we can't
make an academic war here.
The orders we have
are perfectly clear,
to utterly destroy the uprising.
Death sentence
Anyone who resists
will be executed.
Without batting an eyelid!
We have to stain
the Patagonia with blood.
May no one feel weak...
and may everyone
fulfil his duty.
Any questions?
Good.
Lieutenant Colonel sir
The gentlemen Matthews and Saunders
have asked to accompany us.
They could act as guides.
That's fine.
Very good sir.
Only this way can this land
continue being Argentina.
Thank you. Good afternoon.
Lieutenant Colonel sir.
A very hard campaign
awaits us.
May I give the troops
some time off?
Only until 10 p.m.
Tomorrow we rise at 5 a.m.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir.
Mayer take time off.
I'm told there are very
pretty girls here.
Thank you Lieutenant Colonel sir.
- Mayer.
- Sir.
Are you of German
descent or...?
German Lieutenant Colonel sir.
A good race Mayer. Good race.
- Viel Vergnugen.
- Danke schn' Herr Obertsleutnant.
Kneel down.
Kneel down!
Order fire.
- Aim!
- Aim!
- Fire!
- Fire!
The army! Soldiers!
Don't shoot!
Don't shoot it's Zavala!
Bring a sheet.
Flag to discuss peace terms.
Order a cease fire.
We want to tell you...
Take your hat off when
you speak to me eh?
We don't want to have
a confrontation with the army.
All we are asking is that
our detained comrades are freed...
and the rural agreement obeyed.
I am here in person
so that there can be no doubt...
regarding my position
unconditional surrender...
or the death penalty
for all who resist.
We were hoping you had come
to see that the agreement was obeyed...
- ... which you yourself signed.
- and you lot didn't obey.
- The landowners...
- The owners and all of you lot.
All! Look don't talk to me
about agreements.
This is all that matters.
Good. With regard to your demand
we must consult
with the ranch delegates.
Wait a moment.
Sirs we are at war.
We must act swiftly.
We have to rescue the hostages and
save the blood of our soldiers.
And if when these criminals
come we receive them with gunfire?
The leaders dead the Chilean
scum will surrender immediately.
If you give the order,
Lieutenant Colonel sir...
But Colonel...
What are you doing?
They'll kill us all.
There are many strikers
out there.
And I...
I have a family
three children.
I have six children.
Do you realize Captain?
Civilians can't be brought in
to deal with these things.
It has been decided...
It has been decided
to call an assembly.
As from now we will
free the hostages...
to show them that
we have nothing against you lot...
and the only thing we ask
is justice.
I said unconditional surrender.
You have 2 hours to decide.
And remember,
my hand will not tremble.
They won't surrender,
all the worse for them.
And so?
The surrender will be accepted only
when freedom is given...
to the strikers and you
assure us of fulfillment...
ofthe rural agreement.
Who is he?
The owner of La Barrancosa.
Why did you kill him?
- It was the soldiers.
- You are the murderers
because you provoked this situation.
Captain four shots.
What Lieutenant Colonel sir?
Fire him four shots!
- Come on...
- Sergeant!
Come on Commander don't joke.
You four seize him.
You lot seize the rest.
No! No no! Let me go!
Zavala! Zavala! No! Please!
Zavala no please!
Let me go! Let me go! Zavala!
Zavala please!
- Zavala please!
- Aim!
- Fire!
- Zavala please! No!
"Lieutenant Colonel Zavala disembarked
at Gallegos on his way to Deseado. "
Just as well.
The Commander is a guarantee.
- Hurrah for the strike damn it!
- Hurrah!
Down with the exploiters!
Stop this all of you!
I didn't know there were
so many thieves amongst you!
Drop everything and get out!
Come on friend...
Get out I said!
Alcohol is our
worst enemy.
Damn them they're like priests.
Here you have him Facn
quite tame.
Do you remember when
he put you in the stocks?
Goddamn son of a bitch!
I can still feel
the lashes you gave me.
No leave him!
He's alone and unarmed.
Remove his badges he doesn't
deserve them for bad police.
And now let him go.
It's not the done thing to
kick a man when he's down.
Look out! They're gendarmes.
Ready!
It's not the police it's the army.
Lower your weapons!
Take aim.
Fire!
Withdraw!
All back to the camp!
Mr. friend Martense
how's business?
So-so.
With passengers?
No I'm with my comrade
on Federation business.
Get out of here! Right now!
They're shooting
all the Federates!
- But who's shooting?
- Well who do you think?
Your beloved Zavala.
But where? Who?
Who? Well Ramn's already
taken care of.
- Outerello?
- The same. As you hear it.
And in Caadn Len
he's left them scattered.
About a hundred are left dead.
Indeed they make you dig your grave
they can't be bothered even with that.
And when the ground is hard
they make a pile ofyou,
they sprinkle it with petrol
and then set alight to it.
Dead when attempting
to flee: 13.
Dead when attempting
to flee: 13.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir?
I need to tell you something.
Isn't it too much punishment
for what these men have done?
Do you think I
enjoy shooting?
There's not other remedy here.
There are too few of us
to dominate them.
In this empty wilderness
the only way is being hard handed.
Last night we took 400 prisoners.
Do you think we're able to keep watch
day and night over so many rebels?
We're running the risk now
of losing Patagonia.
Think of Chile Captain.
Think of Chile.
They must be scab blacklegs.
We'll stop them.
Come on!
It's Facn Grande that's all.
Get ready.
Ready!
- Get ready.
- Ready!
Ready!
Quickly!
Aim!
- Aim!
- Aim!
Stop!
- Fire!
- Fire!
Attack!
Attack. Come on.
Come on! Come on forward!
Stand up to them!
- To the ground.
- To the ground!
Fire!
Attack!
Keep firing damn it!
Cover him! Cover him!
Stop! Stop firing!
Damn it.
It was Zavala.
We made him back down.
We made a heck of a mistake.
You're going to worry now?
Let's celebrate!
You're already drunk
again friend.
Don't do that to me.
Come Mr. Font sir the telegraph.
Facn Grande is receiving.
Put this.
Friend Jos Font
Edward Matthews
offers himself as a mediator.
Please travel to Jaramillo.
Guarantee offered.
Commander Zavala...
...open to positive solutions.
OK tell him that I've
already set off for there and...
thank the gringo Matthews.
Facn give yourself up!
I'm here to discuss peace terms
with Commander Zavala.
Who want to talk to me?
Arrest him for murdering
Argentine soldiers.
That's treason!
If you're a man
I'll fight you with my hands tied!
Take him away!
I'm Facn Grande's second in command.
I'm here to make a pact.
Get down. Come on!
Get down!
Wait a minute
I'm the Gaucho Cuello
delegate of the Fede...
...of the Workers' Federation.
You take care ofthe other one.
Take them away.
Come on. Walk!
Come on!
Get up. Get him up.
Come on walk.
Walk! Come on!
Come on look sharp. Just there.
Just there.
Get ready.
Aim!
You don't kill a gaucho like that!
Fire!
Load.
Come on.
Lieutenant Colonel sir we good
men have organized ourselves
as a white guard and we're here
to offer you our support
That's fine.
You may join the column.
We want to tell you that the
Rural Society is to put your name...
forward as military governor
of Santa Cruz.
Gentlemen I'm not guided
by any personal ambition.
I'm doing my duty
as I understand I must.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir.
The Red Council.
So you lot wanted to implant
socialism in Patagonia.
A good catch Chief.
A photo for the Buenos Aires
newspapers.
So the readers find out
what these strikers are like.
Let them see the armbands clearly.
That's it.
I think friend Zavala that it
would be best to leave these alive
so that public opinion finds out
what the Patagonian reds are like.
Very good
friend Mndez Garzn.
We'll place them at the disposal
of the Judge.
Ready now!
As I feared. When they attacked us
as a mob I understood it all.
Antonio all that's left to us
is to fight confront them.
Fight? With these men?
Most of them don't even know
how to use a weapon.
They must be taught!
Listen German
the comrades are already looking
at us askance you know?
They have to be spoken to be prepared.
For two and a half months now
we've been out in the countryside.
Sleeping out in the open
most of the time.
Eating whatever there is.
We don't even have tobacco left
Antonio that's struggling.
You have to be organized.
You Spaniards
you talk a lot...
but you're not organized no discipline.
How many weapons are there?
Some fifty rifles
and about a hundred revolvers.
Ammunition?
There'd be ten shots per gun.
Enough to hold out.
And when they're all gone?
We'll fight them with knives.
Take aim.
Lower your weapons!
Unload!
Load. Unload.
Good comrade and?
What are we waiting for?
Tonight's assembly.
No my people want
the assembly right now.
That's no problem.
They're more aroused.
Also if there's no shearing
we'll be spending a hard winter.
We'll do what the majority decides.
Because what this is about here
comrades
is making humanity
understand
that everything can be achieved
through reason and freedom.
Anarchist ideas
are the only ones...
Shut up big mouth!
No comrade. That's against
our principles of freedom.
To interrupt a speech
is to cut freedom.
These big mouths talk and talk
but we have the troops on top of us.
For they must be made to understand,
that weapons are products...
of stupidity
and irrationality.
Alright but cut it out comrade.
We're wasting time.
Everyone here knows that Zavala
is camped at Ro Perro.
Right here!
So we have to decide right now
what we're going to do.
Like what are we going to do comrade?
Resist! Resist with the weapons!
Or maybe you don't know that the murderer
Zavala has killed Ramn Outerello...
and dozens of comrades
at Caadn Len?
But where do you get that from?
What did you see it yourself perhaps?
I didn't see it. But the person
who told me deserves to be believed.
Ah! You didn't see it
you were told then!
He wouldn't have seen them
but we did see...
how they attacked us without warning
and we lost nine comrades there.
I think we mustn't
expect mercy
neither am I prepared to ask it.
Comrade you've limited me here
with my turn to speak.
No comrade stop him.
Now it's up to us to talk
to the Chilean rural workers.
We don't want any
kind of problems...
with the authorities.
The only thing we do want is
to be allowed to work in peace.
That we're treated properly
and paid as we deserve.
That's why we think...
that we ought to go and talk
with the military to lift this strike.
Comrades. Comrades!
The only way to win
is to fight.
Fight to the last man!
Only one possibility is left for us
to resist!
To defend this estancia
with trenches...
and turn back
those who attack us!
I propose we carry on
with out tactics
occupy ranches
and take hostages.
And when the army arrives
disappear.
Hide ourselves in the woods
in the mountain region
until they have to
come to terms with us.
Because without the workers
the estancias can't function!
No comrade if we split up
they'll go catching us one by one.
We must resist
all together, here.
But comrade
if the army can't
beat us with 100 armed men...
they'll send 200 or 1000.
And us? What are we going to
fight against Zavala with? Ah?
With our bare hands? No we have to
agree terms arrive at an arrangement.
Is it that perhaps we didn't do
it in the last strike?
Comrades we can't
throw out of the window...
all the sacrifices
we've made.
You want us to talk
to the army? So be it!
We'll elect two comrades
to have an interview with Zavala...
and ask for conditions.
Excuse me Lieutenant Colonel sir,
two strikers
ask to be received.
Show them in.
Go in.
Excuse us.
Apologies for interrupting your meal.
What do you want?
We represent
the Workers' Federation.
We've come to talk
as equals
about the conditions for an agreement.
As equals.
- What nationality are you?
- Spanish.
- And the other?
- Polish.
And you two rebelling foreigners
want to impose conditions on me?
But conditions for what?
Sons of bitches!
Conditions for what?
Sergeant!
Come out. Come on come on!
Captain
go up to the column.
A sargeant and a white flag.
Go and ask them for
unconditional surrender.
Yes sir Lieutenant Colonel.
You've all seen
how insolently they behave.
I'm not going to let them
raise their heads.
Especially Soto.
That Antonio Soto
who's filled them with those ideas.
And we'll have done
with all this for good and all.
Ready. Aim.
Brothers throw down those guns
embrace the cause...
- ... of the libertarian ideal.
- Fire!
Aren't you the leaders
of the Workers' Federation?
Yes sir.
Order from Lieutenant Colonel Zavala.
Unconditional surrender.
Hand over of hostages
horses and weapons.
Otherwise we shall not
hesitate to proceed.
Didn't Lieutenant Colonel Zavala
receive our delegation?
No delegation
will be received.
That is the last offer.
We won't decide
without consulting the Assembly.
As you like.
You have 2 hours.
Don't accept. They'll shoot you all
not a single one will be left alive.
Comrades don't trust
Zavala don't surrender.
You're laborers you're workers!
Comrades carry on with the strike!
To triumph definitively so as to
form a new society...
where there are no poor or rich
where there are no weapons
where there is happiness and respect
for human beings!
Let's get going.
...tire ourselves out like beasts.
We must make
the trenches now.
Let's return to the camp.
And I'm saying it plainly and clearly
so there's no doubt left:
The only way to win
is with weapons!
Comrades I move that we
surrender ourselves unconditionally.
I didn't expect this end.
I didn't expect it.
Come on German
there's nothing left to do here.
No Antonio I'm staying.
I respect the decision
of the majority.
But it's suicide!
They'll shoot you first!
I've always complied with
the decision of my comrades
even if they were mistaken.
Today they've chosen death.
I too respect it
but I'm not meat
to be thrown to the dogs.
If it's to fight I'll stay
but the comrades
don't want to fight.
I do.
I'll carry on fighting.
Come on German
very near here is that paradise
you were seeking so much.
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Damn it!
Draw out your gun.
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Where's Antonio Soto?
Stop you bastards
it's me Soto!
Lieutenant Colonel sir
that's the Chilean
who proposed the surrender.
Good.
This is the German Shultz.
So you're
the great revolutionary.
Put him to one side.
Let's see the ranch delegates
one step forward!
One step forward
the ranch delegates!
It seems there are no delegates eh?
Did they all die?
It's OK they'll appear soon enough.
Find out about Soto.
Lieutenant Colonel sir, maybe not that one.
He's the only mechanic in the area
we might need him.
Leave him.
So you've got new clothes.
Can you tell me
where you got them?
Captain undress them
and tie them to the fence.
Let them spend the night naked!
I now have the report
Lieutenant colonel, sir.
Soto and three others are
fleeing by horse to Chile.
Send out Lieutenant Arrleta
wlth ten men,
and bring him back alive or dead.
- What's your name?
- Esperidin Gonzlez sir.
Now you go straight
to your boss's place...
And from now on
if he orders you to be a dog
you get down on all fours
and you bark.
- Is that understood?
- Alright sir.
And whoever lets the candle go out
I'll blow the lid off his brains!
OK?
Yes?
Aren't you sleeping Lt. Col. sir?
The condemned are already
in the shearing shed.
Each with a candle
to make it easier to guard them.
Very good.
For tomorrow
Does the order stands or...?
Yes Captain yes!
The order stands!
Or do you want me to let
them all go free?
It's not about
pardoning or punishing here
it's about putting an end
to these rebels.
You prefer to kill a hundred leaders
rather than some day...
a thousand innocents dying.
They may say I was
a bloodthirsty military
but they'll never say
I was a disobedient one.
- Not in the European war...
- Come on.
Ready.
Aim.
Fire!
Aim.
Fire!
Aim.
Fire!
Aim.
Fire!
Laborers, reduced from 120
to 80 pesos a month.
Wagon drlvers, from 130 to 90 pesos
Sheep hands, from 140 to 100 pesos.
Ranch cooks
from 160 to 120 pesos.
Herders per day
from 25 to 12 pesos.
These wages replace
those from the previous agreement...
which is
definitively annulled.
The memory of your action
in Patagonia...
will remain in the memory
of its inhabitants
as a lesson on what inspired
men are capable of...
in the fulfillment of their duty
and in the greatness ofthe nation.
Very good!
Friends.
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
And so say all of us!
And so say all of us!
And so say all of us!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
And so say all of us!
Hip-hip! Hurrah!