Can you imagine being banned from accessing your own money?, begins the voiceover of Ricardo Darín to give body and shape to the material that compiles the worst economic crisis that Argentina experienced, in 2001, the year that we all remember as “the corralito”. 20 years after this fact, the documentary “2001 el año del corralito” arrives on the screen of the History channel, which can be seen from December 1 on the channel’s On Demand platform, (History play), and on December 5 at 9:00 pm its premiere on the History channel arrives.
For his launch, Darín participated in a brief press conference where he explained to media from other countries how it was that this tragic event was lived in our country and how this economic outrage that marked so many Argentines affected him personally. “It is painful to remember, but much more painful is not to have memory because the pain of not having memory affects the present and the future, our children and grandchildren, all societies,” Darín said at a virtual press conference.
“The experience that Argentina went through as a whole from what happened on that date hopefully can serve us forward to try not to go through the same places, not to make the same mistakes even though it is not the people who committed them,” he said. Then he told how the proposal came to him and said: “When I was summoned to make the narration of this documentary it seemed somehow logical that they summoned me, which I appreciate, basically because after as you mentioned it, having done the 20 years of History and having gone through the experience of “The Odyssey of the Giles”, appeared a bit as a feasible character to make the narration of this documentary,” he replied. He then referred to how this event affected him personally, and recounted a very painful family situation he lived with his mother. “When I say it didn’t touch me personally, I’m appealing to the understanding of others. Of course it touched me. What happened to me is that I was not imprisoned, I did not have an amount of money in any bank and therefore I had nothing to claim,” he began by explaining. He added: “But it did happen to my mother and had it not been for the existence of my sister and mine, she would have had a much worse time. I’m going to summarize the pain she went through with a little anecdote. My mother died three years ago. Until the last of her days, until the last of her days, she was all the time asking me if there was any possibility of recovering the money I had lost in a bank,” he said. “When there was something like a month and a half, two months before her death occurred, she was very deteriorated, physically she was really very bad, the outcome was looming and everything made us assume that it was going to be inescapable. And because of those strange things that life has, with Florencia, my wife, one day we went to visit her we decided to lie to her. Considering that it was probably the last days of her life I lied shamelessly, just to try to calm her soul a little, because she was really very worried,” he revealed with pain. And she added to the story: “She was always very distressed to have felt robbed, scammed, run over, humiliated and I told her that I had everything in the hands of some lawyers and that they had given me hope that this could be solved. If you had seen the sparkle in his eyes the moment I told him that, you would understand to what extent, I think, that was a white lie and it came in handy.” The production of History has testimonies of characters who were a key part of the so-called “corralito”, among which is the Argentine politician Domingo Cavallo.
