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Netflix Releases '50 Segundos' on the Fernando Báez Sosa Case, Featuring New Testimonies

The three-part Netflix series uses unseen footage with first-person accounts to revive Argentina’s reckoning with youth violence.

Overview

  • Premiering November 13, the docuseries arrives on Netflix as three episodes directed by Martín Rocca and produced by Alejandra Sarmiento.
  • It features exclusive images and interviews with the Báez Sosa family, friends, authorities, and six of the eight men convicted in the case, with Ayrton Viollaz speaking off camera.
  • Graciela Sosa recounts her last conversation with her son before his trip to Villa Gesell and the searing moment she identified his body.
  • On-camera statements from Máximo Thomsen, Ciro and Luciano Pertossi, Enzo Comelli, and Blas Cinalli describe prison life, remorse or reflections, and their view of the trial.
  • A friend of Fernando recounts a discriminatory taunt heard during the assault outside the Le Brique nightclub on January 18, 2020.