- They are four young men and four young women, from different backgrounds, united in their conviction that society must change. Revolted by the political situation in those troubled 1970s, they decide to mount a spectacular action to expose the complicity of Swiss banks in the crimes of a heinous South-American dictatorship. Vehicles, weapons, safe houses: "Operation Libertad" is prepared carefully. In a shrewd move, a member of the group is equipped with a portable camera; he will film the operation as it unfolds, producing material that will boost its impact in the mass media. When the day arrives, everything goes exactly as planned -- till hitting a snag. The first in a series of disconcerting hitches that throw the group increasingly off balance...—Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org>
- In April 1978, members of "Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire" (GAR) rob a major bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin American. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation. Although the bank director confesses to GAR, the Paraguayan mediator refuses to cooperate, confronting the members of GAR with difficult issues: Should they liquidate this lieutenant-colonel of the dictatorial regime's secret service? Or take him as a hostage? What should they do with the millions they have stolen from the bank? And the agonizing, recurring question: Does the end really justify the means? Thirty years later, the videotapes of this operation resurface, thus raising a new question: How did the affair actually end at that time?
- In 1978, the members of a small revolutionary group break into a Swiss bank near Zurich. They film the entirety of the action so as to prove the collusion between the Swiss financial system and dictators. The police and the bank deny everything. 30 years later, the tapes of the «Opération Libertad» resurface.
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