“The major political film of our times,” according to the Village Voice’s 1978 review, The Battle of Chile gives a real-time, on-the-ground account of the events surrounding General Augusto Pinochet’s bloody, US-backed coup. Fifty years later, the three parts of this rarely-screened masterpiece will premiere on September 8 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in a restored print. The Battle of ChileAfter being held by the military for ten days in the concentration camp that operated inside Santiago’s National Stadium, Guzmán fled Chile into exile. The Battle of Chile will have a weeklong run at BAM Rose Cinemas in New York City, followed by the Harvard Film Archive in Boston, the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, and other cities. Completed before the coup, the film was released in 1972 in Chile, but most of the prints were lost or destroyed once the military took power.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 08, 2023 11:07 UTC