When democracy hangs by a thread over Easter weekend—and nobody knows who holds the scissors.
On April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.
Acting
Alis Bazán channels Chávez's charisma and fragility simultaneously.
Direction
Varela recreates 48 hours that rewrote a nation's fate.
Director
José Antonio Varela
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The April 2002 coup remains deeply contested in Venezuela; this film enters a battlefield of memory where 'what really happened' depends entirely on who survived to tell it.
Director José Antonio Varela cast Alis Bazán after he was spotted doing Chávez impressions at a Caracas comedy club—life imitating art imitating power.
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