Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

Nascimento : 1915-11-25, Valparaíso, Chile

Morte : 2006-12-10

História

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean general, politician and the dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990 who remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 1998 and was also President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981.

Perfil

Augusto Pinochet

Filmes

Primera
Self (archive footage)
On October 18 2019, a student uprising was triggered in Santiago over the Chilean government’s increase in metro fare. As the country awakens to the unrelenting abuse of power enacted by a neoliberalist government, and a mistrust in the political class intensifies, we follow Angy and Felipe—two parents who embrace their new roles as activists and enlist in the expanding movement that is fighting for a new Constitution and a just society.
Kill Pinochet
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Influence
Self - Head of Chile's Military Government (archive footage)
Charting the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation management firm: the British multinational Bell Pottinger.
ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
Self (archive footage)
For years, the murder of Chilean protest singer Victor Jara was blamed on an official in Pinochet's army. Now in exile, he tries to exonerate himself.
Santiago, Itália
Self (archive footage)
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.
Chicago Boys
Self (archive footage)
The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.
Habeas Corpus
Self (archive footage)
After the coup d’état in 1973, employees at the Vicariate for Solidarity began the risky road to save the lives of the prosecuted and find the fate of the detained. With time, they understood there was a politics of extermination in place against the dissidents, and that, in order to decipher its functioning and those directly responsible, they had to turn into a sophisticated intelligence team.
De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor
Self (archive footage)
Documentary that explores the "Archives of Horror" of the General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, discovered in Paraguay in 1992 and in the documentation of Operation Condor found there, which reveals who was responsible, their goals, strategies, accomplices and murders.
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Laissez-faire offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which societies are based.
No
Self (archive footage)
No Chile de 1988, o governo ditatorial convoca um plebiscito para perguntar se a população apoia os militares. Um publicitário, então, fica responsável pela Campanha do Não, com ideias ousadas para convencer o povo a acabar com o regime militar.
Pinochet
Self (archive footage)
Documental about the Second Independence of Chile. Images and videos from the period before and after September 11th, 1973
Donos de Portugal
Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
Donos de Portugal é um documentário sobre 100 anos de poder económico. O filme retrata a proteção do Estado às famílias que dominaram a economia do país, as suas estratégias de conservação de poder e acumulação de riqueza. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo ? as grandes famílias cruzam-se pelo casamento e integram-se na finança. Ameaçado pelo fim da ditadura, o seu poder reconstitui-se sob a democracia, a partir das privatizações e das relações intestinas com o poder político. Novos grupos económicos ? Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - afirmam-se sobre a mesma base. Quando a crise desvenda todos os limites do modelo de desenvolvimento económico português, este filme apresenta os protagonistas e as grandes opções que nos trouxeram até aqui.
Santiago Files
Himself (archive footage)
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 (archive footage)
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
The Judge and the General
Self (archive footage)
A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past.
Operación Siglo XX
Augusto Pinochet
80s: El soundtrack de una generación
Self (archive footage)
In Chile, during the mid 80s, a wave of young enthusiasts from different parts of the country decided to rebel against the regime and liberate themselves through rock. It was a new Chile, committed to fight for its ideals, and to have fun at any cost.
Pinochet and His Three Generals
Self
In 1976-77, José Ma Berzosa contacted General Pinochet during a trip to Chilean Antarctica. On his return to Santiago, Pinochet agreed to be interviewed. In front of the camera, the General and three members of the junta speak about their memories and political thoughts, artistic tastes and their family lives. From the interviews, conducted in an apparently cordial atmosphere, emerges an ironic portrait without concessions of their taste for order, efficiency and a certain "ordinary fascism." By way of contrast, the families of victims and missing people endure a different reality
Condor - les axes du mal
In 1973, Chile undergoes a coup d'etat. 30 years later, it appears that it was - alongside with all the coups in the southern cone - organised by the CIA in order to stop the possibility of having a communist block on its south.
The Pinochet Case
Self (archive footage)
True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case built against him before & during this period by a young Spanish prosecutor, Carlos Castresana.
Recuerdos del futuro: Raúl Pellegrín
Chile: Hasta Cuando?
Self
A portrait of a brutal Pinochet military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest; military intimidation of the population; indiscriminate arrests: murder torture and disappearances were facts of Chilean life.
Dulce Patria
Self
Filmed during hard and decisive years of the democratic struggle against the regime of Augusto Pinochet, it is the first film in which a group of Chilean filmmakers, without anonymity try to give a global account of the Chilean situation of those days. The film reflects the vision and personal testimony of its director about his country at that moment.
A Grin Without a Cat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Les pompiers de Santiago
A Batalha do Chile - Segunda Parte: O Golpe de Estado
Self (archive footage)
Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.
Ich war, ich bin, ich werde sein
Self
In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country - Chacabuco and Pisagua - leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.
Inside Pinochet's Prisons
Self
The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.