La proyección de las alamedas (1973-2023) (en línea)

The assault on the Palacio de la Moneda is, probably, one of the most striking images in the history of the 20th century, not only of Chile, but also of the contemporary world. The recording of those shots and the tanks advancing through the deserted streets was immediately converted into memory when broadcast on television around the world. The cinema also witnessed the process through Patricio Guzmán's trilogy The Battle of Chile, a documentary that had begun to be recorded some time before the coup d'état that ruined a unique democratic project in all of Latin America. These three films, smuggled out of the country, became the cornerstone that defined the informative and denunciatory documentary and a great influence on much 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 fight for democracy. Proof of this are the different approaches that, from fiction and documentary, keep his interpretation and his legacy alive with productions both inside and outside Chile.

The Instituto Cervantes presents the series "The projection of the alamedas (1973/2023)" to join the activities of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Chilean military dictatorship, an online film program that includes four documentaries that They return, from different perspectives, to the coup d'état that ended the government of Salvador Allende.