The Witnesses

Year: 1971

Runtime: 77 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Charles Elsesser

Drama

On Santiago’s outskirts, slum residents have for years paid small fees to a developer who promises legal title to the plots beneath their homes. He sells land he doesn’t own; when a resident confronts him, the developer shoots the man before the community. The witnesses must decide whether testifying will endanger their already precarious lives.

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