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Viva la libertad
CHILE · 1965

Viva la libertad

Patricio Guzmán
imprisonment and freedom institutional oppression animal liberation social hierarchy resistance and escape
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Synopsis

Animated short that addresses social and personal issues, begins with the prison and prisoners are seen as slaves and gendarmes as the all powerful, in a celebration of the gendarmes the prison burns down and the gendarmes kill the prisoners, one manages to escape and faces the city there is a parallel between a zoo and the prison showing that it is similar, and this character releases the animals

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