Rafael Benavente

1970'lerdeki Latin Amerikan tarihinin belleği niteliğindeki Sıkıyönetim, ABD'nin bu kıtadaki müdahalelerini de çarpıcı bir dille gözler önüne sererken, yakın tarihin ciddi yaralarından birini deşiyor ve bir insanlık suçunun gelecek nesiller tarafından bile unutulmayacağını dehşetle gösteriyordu. Yine olağanüstü oyunculukları ve Theodorakis'in enfes müziğiyle politik sinemanın kilometre taşlarından.Film 1970'de gerçekleşen gerçek olaylara dayanan bir hikâye anlatıyor. 1960-67 yılları arasında Uruguay'da hükümet karşıtı muhaliflerin işkence edilip mahkemeye bile çıkarılmadan hapse atılıp öldürüldükleri dönemde geçiyor. Uluslararası bir örgüt için çalışan bir adam kaçırılır. Halk, onun daima insanlığın yararına çalışan bir iyiliksever olduğuna inanmıştır. Oysa film boyunca yürütülen araştırmada, bu İtalyan asıllı Amerikalının sanılan kişi olmadığı, tersine ülkede meydana gelen birçok siyasal olaydan sorumlu olduğu anlaşılır.

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the life and death of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had a relationship and her five children.

In this film the director's recurring concerns return: the divisions in the Chilean left, and its contradictions between what the director calls the "traditional" and the "revolutionary" left. The problem is exposed through the doubts and obsessions of a strange police chief who cannot establish the limits between critical behavior and militant responsibility.

An aged former sailor, ill and confined in his bed, maintains his firm grip on his house and his son, who is having an affair with the widowed next door, through many mirrors displayed in his room and all around the house.

During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of ​​Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.

The film narrates the problems faced by a small group from the small imaginary town of Tunco that arrives in Santiago to ask their representative in parliament for the construction of a road to improve communication alternatives for the inhabitants of the southern hamlet.

The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that shows how a revolution cannot be accomplished by electoral means, and how the wealthy class will always attempt to destroy that revolution, with the help of the armed forces, as soon as their privileges are threatened.