Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

100 mins | Documentary | Sept. 8, 2004

A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory) returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.

Salvador Allende

100 mins | Documentary | Sept. 8, 2004

Salvador Allende
A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory) returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers JBA Production, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mediapro, Les Films de la Passerelle, CV Films
Original title Salvador Allende
Directors Patricio Guzmán
Writers Carmen Castillo, Patricio Guzmán

Cast

Patricio Guzmán

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Salvador Allende

as Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

as Self (archive footage)

José Balmes

as Self - Painter