Chile: A Genral Record (1986) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1986 · 240 mins · Spanish

Directed by

Miguel Littín

Starring

Fidel Castro, Gabriel García Márquez, Salvador Allende, Hortensia Allende

In 1985 Miguel Littin returned to Chile to film a documentary on the nation’s political reality. The four sections—“Miguel Littin: Clandestine in Chile,” “The North of Chile: When I Fled to the Pampa,” “From the Frontier to the Interior of Chile in Flames,” and “Allende: The Time of History”—feature testimony from Gabriel García Márquez, Fidel Castro and Hortensia Bussi, and show life under Pinochet and Allende’s legacy. García Márquez later penned the bestselling book, Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of Miguel Littin.