Memoirs of an Everyday War

A Film by the Cinemateca Chilena

MEMOIRS OF AN EVERYDAY WAR presents the personal stories of four people whose lives reflect the 12 year confrontation between General Augusto Pinochet and many of Chile's citizens.

Each of the film's characters - a priest, an actor whose son was assassinated, his son's widow, and a community leader - show us an aspect of daily life under military dictatorship. Each one has been forced, by personal circumstances and moral principle, to take extraordinary risks in defense of his or her rights, to suffer reprisals - including detention and the murder of relatives - to become a catalyst in the movement for democracy.

MEMOIRS OF AN EVERYDAY WAR addresses issues central in Chile now and for the future: hunger, justice, reconciliation, and the task of rehabilitating what one character calls "this culture of death."

1986 Award of Merit, Latin American Studies Association

29 minutes / color
Copyright Date: 1986
Sale: $280

Subject areas:
Chile, Human Rights, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies, Politics

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