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- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 50 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 50 m
Summary This documentary follows the legal cases that ultimately led to former General Augusto Pinochet being arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity committed over the 25 years that he ruled Chile as one of the most notorious tyrants of the 20th century.
Written By: Patricio Guzmán
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 50 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 50 m
The Pinochet Case
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Summary This documentary follows the legal cases that ultimately led to former General Augusto Pinochet being arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity committed over the 25 years that he ruled Chile as one of the most notorious tyrants of the 20th century.
Written By: Patricio Guzmán
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
84
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Eloquent, meticulously structured documentary -- Sober political and legal analysis alternates with grim first-hand accounts of torture and murder in a film that has the structure of a choral symphony that swells to a bittersweet finale.
Interviews with Pinochet's victims put a human face on the systematic torture that existed under his rule.
The Pinochet Case is a searing album of remembrance from those who, having survived, suffered most.
Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman's powerful and sometimes triumphant documentary is not only an excellent overview of the affair, but serves as the perfect finale to his monumental trilogy about the coup and its aftermath, which began with "The Battle of Chile" (1978).
Because stateside newspapers aren't enough, "The Battle of Chile" (possibly the most riveting and vital historical document ever put on celluloid) should be a prerequisite to Guzmán's new doc, The Pinochet Case.
A riveting documentary.
The film is at its most compelling when the witnesses are telling their stories, and at its least in covering Pinochet's circuitous legal route to Britain's House of Lords.
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Production Company
Benece Paco Poch,
Benecé Produccions,
Canal+ España,
Canal+,
Canal+,
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel et des Télédistributeurs Wallons,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Instituto de la Ciencas y las Artes,
Les Films d'Ici,
Les Films de la Passerelle,
Mallerich Audiovisuales S.L.,
Nueva Imagen,
Open Society Institute,
Pathé Télévision,
Patricio Guzmán Producciones S.L.,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF),
Renn Productions,
Tele+,
The Documentary Fund
Release Date Sep 11, 2002
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Francisco International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
