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CHILE · 1983

The Compass Rose

Patricio Guzmán
Latin American history cultural survival colonial legacy political exile indigenous perspectives
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Synopsis

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it will be a strong and personal vision of several centuries of history.

Year1983
CountryChile
DirectorPatricio Guzmán
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