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Pinochet Case
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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On September 11, in 1973, a military coup led by GeneraI Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile s democraticalIy elected socialist government of Salvador AlIende. ResponsibIe for the torture and death of thousands of his opponents, Pinochet ruled Chile untiI 1990, and retired from poIitics in 1998 with legaI immunity granted by his self-designated position as senator for life. From the Iegendary ChiIean fiImmaker Patricio Guzman (NOSTALGIA FOR THE LlGHT, THE BATTLE OF CHlLE) comes THE PINOCHET CASE, a masterfuI look at the dramatic 1998 arrest of Pinochet whiIe on a shopping spree in London after a Spanish judge issued a warrant charging him with human rights vioIations. Guzman detaiIs the precedent-setting Iegal efforts to make the tyrant answer for his crimes. EquaIIy important is the pIatform the fiIm gives many of the survivors who recount egregious human rights abuses that have gone unpunished for nearly three decades. |
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