Images of a Dictatorship (1999)

Original title

Images d’une dictature

Directed by

Patricio Henriquez

Country

Canada

Runtime

56 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Canadian documentary uses news footage from a Chilean videographer to show what life was like under the Pinochet dictatorship. It pieces together real images from the period without added commentary.

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What happens

Images of a Dictatorship (Spanish: Imageries de una dictatur) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Patricio Henríquez and released in 1999. Culled from the archives of Chilean news videographer Raul Cuevas, the film is a portrait of life in Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The film premiered at the 1999 Montreal World Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2000 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the award for Best Political Documentary. The film won the Jutra Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000, as well as that year's M. Joan Chalmers Documentarian Award for Film and Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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