Caliche sangriento (1969)
- Directed by
- Helvio Soto Soto
- Genre
- war film
- Country
- Chile
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
The film takes place during the War of the Pacific in the 1870s and 1880s. It follows soldiers fighting over nitrate mines in the Atacama Desert. The story criticizes the brutality and senselessness of war and the division among Latin American peoples.
bleakgrittywar-tornvisceralanti-warslow-burndesolateunsettling
What happens
Caliche sangriento (i.e. Bloody Nitrate) is a Chilean movie of 1969 and the first one directed by Helvio Soto. The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific, when Chile, Bolivia and Peru fought over control of the sodium nitrate deposits in the Atacama Desert. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America. The style of the movie has been compared to that of Western and Spaghetti Western movies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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