Chile : a history in exile / produced and directed by Cecilia Araneda.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Araneda, Cecilia, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

American history in video

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto.

Chile--Politics and government--1973-.

Chile.

Political refugees--Chile.

Political refugees.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Chile.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (28 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2000.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

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.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

OCLC:

780742990

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.