La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Segunda parte: El golpe de estado (1976)

Director:

Patricio Guzmán

Writers:

Pedro Chaskel (screenplay)
Julio García Espinosa (screenplay)
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Release Date:

13 March 1976 (Cuba)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Military Junta | Salvador Allende | Chile | Augusto Pinochet | Power Struggle

Directed by
Patricio Guzmán

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jose Bartolome		screenplay
Pedro Chaskel		screenplay
Federico Elton		screenplay
Julio García Espinosa		screenplay
Patricio Guzmán		screenplay

Produced by
Chris Marker	....	producer

Cinematography by
Jorge Müller Silva

Film Editing by
Pedro Chaskel

Production Management
Federico Elton	....	production manager

Sound Department
Jacinto Falcón	....	sound transfer
Carlos Fernández	....	sound mixer
Bernardo Menz	....	sound

Special Effects by
Ricardo Lopez	....	special effects
Eusebio Ortiz	....	special effects
Jorge Pucheux	....	special effects
Delia Quesada	....	special effects
Alberto Valdés	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Ricardo Lopez	....	visual effects
Eusebio Ortiz	....	visual effects
Jorge Pucheux	....	visual effects
Delia Quesada	....	visual effects
Alberto Valdés	....	visual effects

Other crew
Pablo de la Barra	....	production equipment

Production Companies

• Equipe Tercer Ano
• Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)

Distributors

• CeroFilm (2009) (Chile) (all media)
• First Run Features (1998) (USA) (subtitled)
• Icarus Films (1998) (USA) (subtitled)
• VideoFilmes (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)

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Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Cuba | Chile | France

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:U | Brazil:16

Company:

Equipe Tercer Ano

Movie Connections:

Followed by La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Tercera parte: El poder popular (1979)

The second part in a very bravely made trilogy.

The Battle of Chile surely must be the most interesting from the Chilean troubles from the 70's, handled with style & fervour by the passionate director, who by all accounts is a left-wing sympathiser. The film starts with a roar with the failed coup d'etat, & from there builds up the tragic story of the Allende lead "Marxist" party, telling us who plotted against them & why, all set behind the backdrop of mass public support, eventually quashed by right-wing terror. The film has to be admired also for publicly stating that the CIA helped the bourguoise eventually kill close to 30,000 people, and the fact that this film was a huge risk to the lives of the makers (who had to smuggle it out of Chile and edit it as exiles). Overall it deals with the worker's plight not only in Chile, but as a case study around the world (Brazil & Bolivia for example), and only watching these types of films (this is part 2 of a trilogy) do you sense the realities of this world, and shake off the ideals set by society. Well worth a watch.