Salvador Allende

Chile 2004, 100 minutes
Dir. Patricio Guzmán
In Spanish with English subtitles
Rating: [Exempt]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Documentary / History, Sociology, Propaganda

Topics: Politics.

Aroview: A documentary portrait of the Marxist Chilean President who was elected by the public and brutally overthrown by Pinochet's fascist coup of September 11 1973.

Chilean native Guzmán focuses on Alende's brief period as leader of the divided nation. Blending political history and intimate anecdotes, he crafts an emotional tribute to an idealistic period of South American Socialism destroyed by North American Cold War Imperialism.