La proyección de las alamedas (1973-2023) (online)

The assault on the Moneda Palace is probably one of the most shocking images in the history of the 20th century, not only in Chile, but also in the contemporary world. The recording of those shots and the tanks advancing through the deserted streets was immediately turned into a memory when it was rebroadcast by television stations around the world. Cinema also witnessed the process through Patricio Guzmán's trilogy La batalla de Chile, a documentary that had begun to be filmed some time before the coup d'état that put an end to a democratic project unique in all of Latin America. These three films, taken clandestinely out of the country, became the cornerstone that defined the informative and denouncing documentary and a great influence for a large part of the production of this genre around the world.

On the other hand, the importance of this historical event continues to make us reflect on its motivations and consequences, as an event that still appeals to the ways of understanding resistance and citizenship, to the struggle for democracy. Proof of this are the different approaches that, from fiction and documentary, keep its interpretation and legacy alive with productions both inside and outside Chile.

Instituto Cervantes presents the cycle "La proyección de las alamedas (1973/2023)" to join the activities of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Chilean military dictatorship, an online film program that brings together four documentaries that return, from different points of view, to the coup d'état that ended the government of Salvador Allende.