Details
Directed by: Patricio Guzmàn
Runtime: 1h 36min
Certificate: TBC
Topics:
History & Archive
Last Screened:
Sat 17th Jun 2023
A rare chance to see all three parts of Patricio Guzmán's The Battle of Chile, an epic chronicle of the tumultuous events of 1973, resulting in the coup against Salvador Allende by Pinochet's army.
Part 3: The Power of the People deals with the creation by ordinary workers and peasants of thousands of local groups of “popular power” to distribute food, occupy, guard and run factories and farms, oppose black-market profiteering, and link together neighborhood social service organizations, first as a defense against strikes and lock-outs by factory owners, tradesmen and professional bodies opposed to the Allende government, and then increasingly as soviet-type bodies demanding more resolute action by the government against the right.
