Augusto Pinochet
Birthday: Born in 1915-11-25 in Valparaíso, Chile
Deathday: 2006-12-10
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean general, politician and the dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990 who remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 1998 and was also President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981.
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Enigma
Character: Self (archive footage)
Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses....
Michael Moore Live
Character: Self
Michael Moore Live, a 1999 television show featuring political advocate Michael Moore, ran for one six-part series. It was shown on Channel 4 and aired in the United Kingdom only, though it was broadcast from New York. The show had a similar format to The Awful Truth but also incorporated phone-ins and a live stunt each week. It was filmed around 7pm local time, which due to the time difference made it a late-night show in the UK. The live phone-ins all featured UK viewers, and questions were ...
Guerilleros
Character: Self (archive footage)
Exclusive testimonies of the actions taken by Chilean guerilla organization FPMR. The stories about the memebers killed in the confrontations against the CNI and the new way of fighting against the oppression Pinochet's dictatorship....
Rompan todo: La historia del rock en América Latina
Character: Self (archive footage)
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent....
Informe especial
Character: Self (archive footage)
Investigative news magazine on Chile's social and political contingency....
360°
Character: Self (archive footage)
Debate, opinions and controversial matters under the look of Daniel Matamala....
El juez, la víctima y el victimario
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12 días que estremecieron Chile
Character: Self (archive footage)
Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people....
Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self (archive footage)
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency....
Chile, las imágenes prohibidas
Character: Self (archive footage)
4 episode miniseries about the 1973 Coup d'etat in Chile and the dictatorship regime that came with it....
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Operación Siglo XX
Character: Augusto Pinochet
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Recuerdos del futuro: Raúl Pellegrín
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Les pompiers de Santiago
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Laissez-faire
Character: Self (archive footage)
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives....
Influence
Character: Self - Head of Chile's Military Government (archive footage)
Charting the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation management firm: the British multinational Bell Pottinger....
Geldsorgen
Character: Self
Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the Chilean central bank in the Pinochet dictatorship. Cano withdraws money from the circulation, which were described by opposition parties with resistance piles. From the Chile cycle by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann....
O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Character: Self (archive footage)
With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years....
People Power
Character: Himself (archive footage)
An exploration of non-violence as the means to achieving social reforms, focusing on the downfall of Pinochet in Chile, the Palestinian Intifada, and Cory Aquino's "people power" revolution in the Philippines....
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
Character: Self
In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country - Chacabuco and Pisagua - leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings....
Dulce Patria
Character: Self
Filmed during hard and decisive years of the democratic struggle against the regime of Augusto Pinochet, it is the first film in which a group of Chilean filmmakers, without anonymity try to give a global account of the Chilean situation of those days. The film reflects the vision and personal testimony of its director about his country at that moment....
De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary that explores the "Archives of Horror" of the General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, discovered in Paraguay in 1992 and in the documentation of Operation Condor found there, which reveals who was responsible, their goals, strategies, accomplices and murders....
Santiago Files
Character: Self (archive footage)
President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship....
80s: El soundtrack de una generación
Character: Self (archive footage)
In Chile, during the mid 80s, a wave of young enthusiasts from different parts of the country decided to rebel against the regime and liberate themselves through rock. It was a new Chile, committed to fight for its ideals, and to have fun at any cost....
The Battle of Chile: Part II
Character: Self (archive footage)
Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself....
Pinochet and His Three Generals
Character: Self
In 1976-77, José Ma Berzosa contacted General Pinochet during a trip to Chilean Antarctica. On his return to Santiago, Pinochet agreed to be interviewed. In front of the camera, the General and three members of the junta speak about their memories and political thoughts, artistic tastes and their family lives. From the interviews, conducted in an apparently cordial atmosphere, emerges an ironic portrait without concessions of their taste for order, efficiency and a certain "ordinary fascism." By...
No
Character: Self (archive footage)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the ...
Chicago Boys
Character: Self (archive footage)
The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile...
Habeas Corpus
Character: Self (archive footage)
After the coup d’état in 1973, employees at the Vicariate for Solidarity began the risky road to save the lives of the prosecuted and find the fate of the detained. With time, they understood there was a politics of extermination in place against the dissidents, and that, in order to decipher its functioning and those directly responsible, they had to turn into a sophisticated intelligence team....
Santiago, Italia
Character: Self (archive footage)
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy....
The Pinochet Case
Character: Self (archive footage)
True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless e...
Owners of Portugal
Character: Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerón...
Chile: Hasta Cuando?
Character: Self
A portrait of a brutal Pinochet military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest; military intimidation of the population; indiscriminate arrests: murder torture and disappearances were facts of Chilean life....
ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
Character: Self (archive footage)
For years, the murder of Chilean protest singer Victor Jara was blamed on an official in Pinochet's army. Now in exile, he tries to exonerate himself....
The Judge and the General
Character: Self (archive footage)
A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past....
The Inconclusive Independence
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America....
A Grin Without a Cat
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America....
Kill Pinochet
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet....
Primera
Character: Self (archive footage)
On October 18 2019, a student uprising was triggered in Santiago over the Chilean government’s increase in metro fare. As the country awakens to the unrelenting abuse of power enacted by a neoliberalist government, and a mistrust in the political class intensifies, we follow Angy and Felipe—two parents who embrace their new roles as activists and enlist in the expanding movement that is fighting for a new Constitution and a just society....
Chile: Order Work Obedience
Character: Self
Swiss television documentary on the first years of the dictatorship, filmed (in color) in 1977 by a team led by director André Gazut and journalist Claude Smadja. Strongly critical of authoritarianism and the failures of the economic model that was beginning to be adopted, the report shows different aspects of the ideological and technical implementation of the military government. From the purge in universities to the precariousness of the Minimum Employment Program, from the revenge of employe...