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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2023
Crew
Assistant Producers: Patricia Boero, Alicia Crespo, Jorge Sánchez
Modernised version: Luis Matti, Sergio Pérez, Molinari S.A.
Film Teams: Pablo de la Barra. Productora América Proa
Archive: Hayowsky and Sceunmann Studios, Noticiario Chile Films; Cuban
Film Institute Archive, Pedro Chaskel, the review Chile Hoy, ISKRA
Editing and credits: Jorge Pucheux, Delia Quesada, Eusebio Ortiz, Alberto Valdés, Ricardo López
Narrator: Abilo Fernández
Sound Engineer: Carlos Fernández
Filmset Managers: Ramón Torrado, José León, Juan Demosthene
Main consultants: Paloma Guzmán, Lilian Indseth, Gastón Ancelovici, Juan José
Mendi, Harald Edelstran, Roberto Matta
Script consultants: Pedro Chaskel, José Bartolomé, Julio García Espinosa, Federico Elton, María Harnecher, Chris Marker
Executive Producer: Jorge Guzmán
Production Manager: Federico Elton
Sound recording: Bernardo Menz
Director’s assistant: José Bartolomé
Montage: Pedro Chaskel
Photography and camera: Jorge Müller Silva
Screenplay and Directing: Patricio Guzmán
In Collaboration With
Chris Marker
Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficas
John and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Awards
Novas Teixeira Prize, French Association of Film Critics (1976, 1977)
International Film Festival, Grenoble (1975, 1976)
International Film Festival, Leipzig (1977)
International Film Festival, Brussells (1977)
International Film Festival, Benalmadena (1977)
International Film Festival, Havana (1979)
Sequencing
La batalla de Chile, one of the most famous documentaries ever to be produced in Latin America, consists of three parts, each of which has a slightly different focus on the central event of the coup d’état of 11 September 1973 which brought an end to democracy in Chile and ushered in Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing dictatorship. Part I, La insurrección de la burguesía (The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie, 96 minutes, released in 1975), opens with very dramatic footage of the bombing of the Moncada Palace, the seat of Chilean government, on the morning of 11 September. By the end of the day Salvador Allende, the first ever Marxist President to be voted into power in Latin America, would be dead. After this dramatic footage the film then tracks back to the elections of the previous year in which Patricio Guzmán and his team are seen interviewing men and women in the street asking them about who they think will win the elections, and by what percentage. The voice-over which punctuates the interviews offers comments on what is being depicted in the everyday scenes.
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