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| Human Rights Watch
Film
Promise to the Dead
8 pm
Friday, January 16, 2009
Remis Auditorium
Promise to the Dead by Peter Raymont (Canada, 2006, 92 min.). On September 11, 1973, Chile’s military attacked its government. As the coup took hold, the democratically elected president Salvador Allende called government members to the presidential palace to stand against their attackers, facing certain death. Ariel Dorfman was Allende’s cultural advisor, and should have been called too; he later discovered his name had been struck from the list so he could live to tell what happened that day. Three decades later, Dorfman is an internationally respected writer and human rights activist, winner of the Sir Laurence Olivier Award for the play Death and the Maiden. Filmmaker Peter Raymont travels to Chile with Dorfman in late 2006, at the time when Augusto Pinochet, is dying. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
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