It was an emotional night at the Gaumont cinema. Within the framework of the festival Baficiwas previewed “The photographer and the postman”, the documentary directed by Alexander Hartmann that counts the crime of Joseph Louis Heads. Twenty-five years after the murder of the photographer from the magazine NOTICIAS, the film was released to a full house.
The Netflix film reconstructs the crime that that January 25, 1997 shocked the entire country. It begins with the very day of the murder and then goes back to reconstruct the life of Cabezas and also the investigation that, alone, NOTICIAS faced in 1991 to investigate the then unknown, but all-powerful, Alfredo Yabrán. The documentary features the participation of Gabriel Michi, season partner and friend of José Luis, Edi Zunino, then in the political section, Gustavo González, editor of Politics, Ricardo Ragendorfer, the journalist who wrote the famous cover of “Maldita Police” (whose cover illustrated a photo of José Luis), Lorena Maciel, a journalist who covered the case, Mariano Cazeaux (one of the heads of the judicial investigation of the Dolores court), Alejandro Vecchi (lawyer for the photographer’s family) and the former Buenos Aires governor Eduardo Duhalde. On May 19 it premieres on Netflix, and on April 21, 22 and 24 it can be seen at Bafici.
The room was full. Hartmann, who has just directed the award-winning series about the murder of María Marta Belsunse (“Carmel”) and who is now also premiering “El Nacional” at Bafici, commented before the film started that the crime not only marked the decade but that also marked him. “It was during those years of social weariness that I started filming,” he said. They were also Carlos Lunghi, then head of photography for PROFIL, and Michi, who when the premiere ended, visibly moved, thanked the director for his work in keeping the memory of the photographer alive. 25 years later, not only does no one forget Cabezas, but the film that rebuilds his life and her crime could be Netflix’s new hit.
