Missing
The committed cinema of Costa-Gavras undertook the task of showing the world the marks of the performance of the Chilean military government, for which he advocated the murders and disappearances that were committed during the Pinochet regime. With an American production and two protagonists well known to the spectators of the time -Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek-, Missing was one of the first stories to show in the eyes of the international public the horror that the end of the democratic government of Salvador Allende meant.
This film, based on the book The Disappearance of Charles Horman, by Thomas Hauser, and this, in turn, in the true story of this journalist, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
Synopsis: When the young journalist Charles Horman disappears from his home in Santiago de Chile, his father travels from the United States to join Charles' wife in her search. Together they will go through a bureaucratic odyssey through American diplomatic institutions, in which they will discover the horrors of the Pinochet dictatorship.
