PG—Patricio Guzmán’s landmark film The Battle of Chile (1976) documented the “Popular Unity” period of Allende’s government, the tumultuous events leading up to the coup, and Allende’s death. But the memory of those times and events, captured so powerfully in The Battle of Chile, was largely barred from the collective consciousness of the Chilean people.
Now, Guzmán has returned to show The Battle of Chile in his homeland for the first time, and to explore the terrain of the confiscated (but maybe reawakening) memories of the Chilean people.
