Víctor Jara

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.

For years, the murder of Chilean protest singer Victor Jara was blamed on an official in Pinochet's army. Now in exile, he tries to exonerate himself.

Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profound solidarity with the socialist cause, Muel and his team showed great courage to mix the official registration of images with those triumphant, clandestine, of the nascent opposition.

In Chile, during the mid 80s, a wave of young enthusiasts from different parts of the country decided to rebel against the regime and liberate themselves through rock. It was a new Chile, committed to fight for its ideals, and to have fun at any cost.

Concert by Víctor Jara at Panamericana Televisión in Lima, Peru, on July 17, 1973. This is one of the last audiovisual records of Víctor Jara. Two months later he would be assassinated by the Chilean military dictatorship.

A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a wide range of artists, performers and groups from around the countries of the continent.

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.

The film narrates the problems faced by a small group from the small imaginary town of Tunco that arrives in Santiago to ask their representative in parliament for the construction of a road to improve communication alternatives for the inhabitants of the southern hamlet.

A moving portrait of Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara (1932-73) that chronicles the life of the talented artist who was imprisoned, tortured and machine-gunned by the country's dictatorship.

An officialist film produced by Chile Films in late 1965, following the submission to Congress of the agrarian reform bill by President Eduardo Frei Montalva’s government.

March 1978, Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, during the exhibition “Museo Salvador Allende” a collective mural was made, there the Chilean painter José Balmes worked, together with the Swedish artists Enno Hallek, Jan Háfström, Ulf Ramberg, Stefan Telemen and Hans Viksten.

Through the juxtaposition of images, the documentary proposes to show the juxtaposition present in Chilean society and how it is capable of lamenting the coup d'état and a week later celebrating the Glories of the Army and the “18th”.

After the 1973 Chilean military coup, Joan Jara reflects on the life and legacy of her husband, folk singer and activist Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed by the regime.