The Battle of Chile

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Wednesday March 03, 2004 15:09 by Deirdre - Trinity Anarchist Society

film showing and talk

Thursday 4th March, room 3074, Arts Block.
The Trinity Anarchist society will show the second part of the documentary of The Battle of Chile
(You don't have to have seen the first part in order to understand the second).
As with last week the documentary will be introduced by a Chilean trade union activist and anarchist, and
followed by a discussion.

The Battle of Chile

On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army.
Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, in which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-76), an epic chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it.