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La batalla de Chile : la lucha de un pueblo sin armas = The battle of Chile : the struggle of an unarmed people /

"On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army. Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leadin...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Films d'ici (Firm), National Film Board of Canada, Sept/Arte (Firm), Icarus Films Home Video
Other Authors: Guzmán, Patricio, 1941-, Marker, Chris, 1921-2012, Elton, Federico, Müller Silva, Jorge, Chaskel, Pedro, Fernandez, Abilio
Format: Video DVD
Language:Spanish
Language Notes:In Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : Icarus Films Home Video, [2009]
Edition:4-disc ed.
Subjects:
Allende Gossens, Salvador, > 1908-1973.
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto.
Chile > Politics and government > 1970-1973.
Chile > History > Coup d'état, 1973.
United States > Relations > Chile.
Chile > Relations > United States.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures, Chilean.
Foreign films.
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Summary:"On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army. Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, during which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary The Battle of Chile, an epic chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter revolution against it."--Container.
Item Description:Originally produced as motion pictures from 1975 to 1978.
Originally produced as motion pictures from 1975 to 1978, released on VHS in 1993.
Booklet laid in container; includes a new introduction to Patricio Guzmán's work by Cecilia Ricciarelli and Pauline Kael's 1978 review of the film.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:4 videodiscs (320 min) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Format:DVD, NTSC.
Awards:Battle of Chile: French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, Critics Award, 1976, 1977 ; Leipzig DOK Festival, 1976, 1977; Grenoble (France) International Film Festival, 1975, 1976 ; Brussels International Film Festival, 1977; Festival Internacional de Benalmádena (Spain), 1977; Festival Internacional de La Habana (Cuba), 1979.
Obstinante memory: Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, Audience Award, 1997; St. Louis International Film Festival, Best Documentary Award 1998; Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, Golden Sheaf Award, 1998; Leipzig DOK Festival, Silver Dove, 1998; Havana (Cuba) Internacional Film Festival, Grand Coral-Second Prize, 1997.
Production Credits:Producer, Federico Elton ; director of photography, Jorge Müller Silva ; editor, Pedro Chaskel ; narrator, Abilio Fernandez.