If you thought Mario Kreutzberger (a.k.a. Don Francisco) was only about entertaining Latino families with Sábado Gigante and Don Francisco Presenta think again.
The popular TV presenter last weekend screened Testigos del Silencio a documentary about his family’s 2005 visit to the Auschewitz concentration camp, the Varsovia ghetto, a Polish cemetery, and the Majdanek extermination center for the 60th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust. The pilgrimage is part of an annual event known as Marcha por la vida (March of the Living.)
In an interview with Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, Kreutzberger said the point of the journey, said , “was to pay tribute to my parents who lived horrible moments.”
Though more than 400 people attended the screening on Saturday (when else?), Don Francisco says he has no plans for a wider release. And let’s hope it stays this way, or at the very least let’s hope it will stay away from the hands of marketers who are probably already ruminating ways to pitch their brands through some kind of product placement deal.
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