“It was like winning the world title,” one of the graphs. It was the most memorable bank robbery in Argentine criminal history. Without firing a shot, the thieves who attacked the vault of the Banco Río branch in Avenida del Libertador e Peru, in Acassuso, on Friday 13 – yes, Friday 13 January 2006, entered the day, and escaped from a dump truck and with a rubber tube in a drain tell their version in Los ladrones, which debuted Netflix.
It was something “artistic, without violence”, as he says Fernando Araujo, ideologue of the robbery and leader of the gang. Araujo grows marijuana in his house, but it is clear that the plan was not caused by a state of “cannabis delirium”.
The thieves interviewed – at times it even seems that they interpreted themselves, that they acted – are, then, Fernando Araujo (“The artist”), the Uruguayan Luis Mario Vitette Sellanes (“The actor”), Rubén de la Torre ( “The Delinquent”) and Sebastián García Bolster (“The Engineer”).
It is they who, after escaping, left the famous little mark of “In a neighborhood of rich people without weapons or grudges, it’s just money and not love”.
Matías Gueliburt, director of several documentaries, such as Vilas: You will be what you should be or you will be nothingalso broadcast by Netflix, it reviewed the event, in detail, from the idea, the planning and the theft, to the consequences, which we will not anticipate for those who do not remember, but if there are testimonies of the thieves involved .. .
reconstruction of The thieves: the true story of the heist of the century It also includes a reconstruction of the plan with the same protagonists, models and fiction of the robbery, and the testimonies, with more than a few canchereadas, especially of the boss and the engine of the assault, a Fernando Araujo with a hat or with crossed legs in the living room of your home.
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The excessive tone of some members of the band (well, above all) can make people nervous who understand that theft is a crime and that, even if Araujo says that the owners of the safes received more than they had in them, the truth it seems to be another.
The theft of the centuryAriel Winograd’s film, with Diego Peretti and Guillermo Francella, brought the story closer two and a half years ago, so many of the 2 million viewers that the film had on the bill, plus those who then watched it in streaming, will remember enough of the facts.
Araujo, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film in which Peretti played him, is almost the protagonist, although his henchmen provide color details. There is the background of each of them, from those who had never stolen anything to those who came from the underworld and crime, and from prison.
Here the criminals are almost heroes. We talk about morality and ethics, one differs from the other, and if the big scamthe movie with George Clooney and Brad Pitt about the casino robbery was funny, it was fiction.
Well, this documentary is not fiction, but yes, it is tremendously bearable and even fun.
“The thieves: the true story of the robbery of the century”
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Documentary. Argentina, 2022. 110 ‘, SAM 13. Of: Matthias Gueilburt. Available in: Netflix.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
