The film centers on a town in Santiago, where Juan Luis Godoy, a worker who dabbles in literature, has a verbal confrontation with a novelist (Waldo Rojas) who, representing Editorial Quimantú, has gone to propose to the villagers a literary workshop where they would study Georg Lukács, socialist realism, superstructure and class consciousness, among other theoretical issues. Godoy, for whom the important thing is not the technique but the creation, discusses this offer but, in the end, the project is approved.
Producer
Documentary about a Chilean Charles Bronson impersonator.
Screenplay
Documentary about a Chilean Charles Bronson impersonator.
El funcionario, Kafka
A former public-services worker wants to return to his job. In the attempt, he meets wandering people, who seek "parallel ways" of survival in a chaotic socio-political context in Chile, after the 1973 Coup d'état .
Military Phantasm
The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.
A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.
Santiaguino
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
