Allende's Chile in 15 minutes — history class never hit this hard.
Made by Fernando Balmaceda in 1972, it is a documentary that shows the presence of the State Technical University throughout Chile through its provincial headquarters, with teaching, scientific research, technological development, cultural extension and the relationship with the historical moment of the country.
Direction
Balmaceda treats bureaucracy like poetry.
Editing
Fifteen minutes, zero fat, maximum ideology.
Director
Fernando Balmaceda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Allende's brief presidency, this is essentially a government-funded victory lap before the violence of Pinochet's 1973 coup.
Fernando Balmaceda kept working underground after the coup; many of his films were smuggled out or lost.
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