Saldaño, el sueño dorado

Saldaño, el sueño dorado (Saldaño, The Golden Dream) is a 2014 documentary by Raúl Viarruel about Víctor Saldaño, an Argentine man on death row in Texas.

The film discusses the life of Saldaño, including his murder of a man and the resulting death sentence. Viarruel uses material from staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship and Saldaño's mother Lidia Guerrero; he was unable to acquire interview material from Saldaño himself.^[1]

Viarruel is a journalist at . The filmmaker stated: "La película asume la certeza de lo que es y cómo funciona el sistema judicial norteamericano para alguien latinoamericano y pobre como Saldaño" (The film takes on the certainty of the judicial system in then United States and how it works for someone from Latin America and poor like Saldaño).^[1] He added that he wanted to obtain a better outcome for Saldaño, but not to exculpate him.^[1]

Reception[]

Horacio Bilbao of Clarín wrote that the film was "Buena" (good).^[2]

Pablo Suárez of the Buenos Aires Herald gave a negative review, arguing that it was uninteresting.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Saldaño, el sueño dorado at IMDb
• Saldaño, el sueño dorado - El Desencanto Films SRL (in Spanish)
• Aizpeolea, Cristina (2015-03-15). ""Saldaño, un sueño dorado": Un cordobés en pena (de muerte)" (in Spanish). La Voz.
• Bernades, Horacio (2015-04-30). "Un argentino entre los "muertos que caminan"". Página/12 (in Spanish).

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