Overview
A gripping tale of endurance and resilience against a backdrop of oppression and isolation.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- harrowing
- claustrophobic
- austere
- serious movie night
- historical cinema night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The military deliberately isolates three Tupamaro prisoners to break their minds over twelve years.
José Mujica, Mauricio Rosencof, and Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro endure solitary confinement rather than submit to the dictatorship's attempt to destroy them.
Jail cells and military facilities dominate the prisoners' experience, turning confinement into the film's primary visual and emotional environment.
The film revisits Uruguay's 1973 military dictatorship and the imprisonment of prominent Tupamaro figures, including future president José Mujica.
Films like A Twelve-Year Night, and why
The Lives of Others
shared political imprisonment, authoritarian repression, and psychologically intense historical drama
Missing
shared focus on state violence, moral endurance, and austere historical drama
The Year of the Pig
shared depiction of political detention, torture, and resistance under military dictatorship
Movie Details
- Director
- Álvaro Brechner
- Release Date
- 2018-09-20
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 (312)
Cast
- Antonio de la Torre
- Chino Darín
- Alfonso Tort
- César Troncoso
- Soledad Villamil
- Sílvia Pérez Cruz
- Mirella Pascual
- Nidia Telles
- César Bordón
- Luciano Ciaglia
Common questions
- What is A Twelve-Year Night about?
- Three Tupamaro prisoners endure twelve years of calculated solitary confinement as Uruguay’s dictatorship wages psychological war against their minds and convictions.
- What is A Twelve-Year Night like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of A Twelve-Year Night as measured, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is A Twelve-Year Night violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in A Twelve-Year Night as moderate.
- Which films are like A Twelve-Year Night?
- Films with a similar feel include The Lives of Others, Missing, and The Year of the Pig.
- How long is A Twelve-Year Night?
- A Twelve-Year Night runs 122 minutes.
