Chile : a history in exile /
Cecilia Aranada returned to Chile years after her family had escaped the bloody Pinochet regime. Her own mother had been held and tortured in the Estadio Nacional, the infamous stadium from which many never emerged. She was shocked that in Chile today, many did not know of the horrors of the Pinoche...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York, NY :
Filmakers Library,
2000.
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| Series: | Filmakers Library online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Cecilia Aranada returned to Chile years after her family had escaped the bloody Pinochet regime. Her own mother had been held and tortured in the Estadio Nacional, the infamous stadium from which many never emerged. She was shocked that in Chile today, many did not know of the horrors of the Pinochet regime. Instead, they attribute today's prosperity to progress under the dictator. Interviewing Chileans who escaped at that time, including one of Allende's guards, she records the powerful memories of those who were torn from their families, beaten, raped, and subjected to electric shock. With deep emotion, they speak of the friends and relatives they lost. They recall the promise of the Allende regime, the first Marxist democracy in Latin America, where there seemed to be new opportunities for peasants and workers. On September 11, 1973 Allende was killed in a military coup and the reign of terror began. A generation has grown up in Chile with no knowledge of this history. But voices from exile provide irrefutable testimony. A Spanish version is available. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as DVD. Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (video file (28 min.)) : sound, color. |
| Audience: | For College; Adult audiences. |
| Awards: | Best Independent Documentary, Canadian International Annual Film Festival, 1999 Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, 1999 Chicago Latino Film Festival, 1999 |