Chile: Obstinate Memory
1997 · 59 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 386 VOTES · DIR. Patricio Guzmán
Overview
After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.
Dialogue Timeline — 645 lines
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00:00:40 I was supposed to get married at 9:30am.
00:02:54 We're not in the mood to talk.
00:05:27 only holds on to the basic facts.
00:06:54 I took a blow to the stomach, and landed on my back.
00:08:57 And that's Julio.
00:10:55 I was one of the first to come out.
00:12:59 and suffer, but it makes us live too.
00:15:59 We'd like to find them to talk to them, 20 years later.
00:19:07 With hair!
00:21:29 Since I was young, I've always felt
00:23:15 the way I see it.
00:25:18 our way of understanding life.
00:27:04 The film shows why the coup d'etat was a necessary thing.
00:28:49 What happened?
00:30:21 Let them work!
00:32:10 and held in a torture camp
00:33:54 Now, the time has passed...
00:39:09 I had to do something.
00:41:16 23 years later, revisiting the Stadium with a doctor friend, Alvaro
00:43:22 The Stadium was the first school of terror
00:47:49 I miss them
00:51:15 Even though we failed, as David was saying
00:52:55 You understand...
11:19:07 SANTIAGO, CHILE
Cast & Characters
Patricio Guzmán
Narrator
Vincent Davy
Narrator
Hortensia Allende
Self (widow of Salvador Allende)
José Balmes
Self (painter)
Carlos Flores del Pino
Self (film-maker)
Ernesto Malbran
Self (professor)
Rodolfo Müller
Self (father of Jorge Muller Silva)
Pablo Perelman
Self (film-maker)
Alvaro Undurraga
Self (doctor)
Ignacio Valenzuela
Self (uncle of Patricio Guzmán)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed645
Dialogue density10.9 lines / min
First line00:00:40
Final line11:19:07
Production Record
DirectorPatricio Guzmán
LanguageSpanish
IMDb votes386