Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Birth : 1942-08-02, Lima, Perú

History

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. She is best known for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and "City of the Beasts" (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002).

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Isabel Allende

Movies

Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Self
Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.
The Power of the Heart
Herself
From the director of ‘THE SECRET’ comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishing power and intelligence of your heart. Featuring some of the most inspiring and influential icons of our age including Paulo Coelho, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Isabel Allende, and Eckhart Tolle, ‘THE POWER OF THE HEART’ – which ties into a book of the same name – is an experience that will lead you to uncover... and rediscover... the treasure in your chest.
A Fierce Green Fire
Narrator (voice)
It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.
Santiago Files
Herself
President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.
The Inconclusive Independence
Self - Writer. Chile
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
The Red Elvis
Herself
Viola Chilensis
Self
Chile: The Other 9/11
Herself
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11th 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chile. The result was fire, the suicide of President Salvador Allende and ultimately the death or disappearance of over three thousand people. "Chile: The Other 9/11" pieces together the dramatic hour-by-hour events of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power and marked a turning point in the Cold War.
Of Love and Shadows
Writer
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
The House of the Spirits
Novel
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Alba
Novel
A family dinner is experienced through the eyes of a little girl called Alba, who inherits the magical qualities of her dead grandmother and thus inhabits another world, that of the good spirits. Inspired by Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits".
Unfinished Diary
The friend of childhood
In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.