A los pueblos del mundo
A record of Pinochet's crimes, one of few Chilean exile films made in the US.
21'
United States
IFFR 2024
Besides Miguel Littin, Patricio Guzmán and Raúl Ruiz, Helvio Soto was the most famous Chilean director to go into exile. During the Frei Montalva government and the Unidad Popular era, Soto had directed films similar in tone and style to the popular political cinema en vogue in Italy, France and the United States at that time.
His very Damiani-esk titled Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política (1973) was among the very first Chilean films to be screened outside the country after the putsch. With La triple muerte del tercer personaje, Soto continues in this vein, albeit in a decidedly more paranoid as well as allegorical register. After surviving incarceration and torture in a Latin American dictatorship, journalist Arturo writes a book about his experience. In his descriptions of the people and situations, he unwittingly unveils certain information deemed vital by a mysterious, internationally operating Organisation which goes on a killing spree. While Arturo finds himself in the centre of an affair beyond his immediate understanding, another prisoner who also survived slowly reveals himself as a key figure in this operation – player or target? One of the most enigmatic and suspenseful films of this corpus!
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2024
- 99'
- Spain
- 1979
- Director
- Helvio Soto
- Countries of production
- Spain, France, Belgium, Chile
- Year
- 1979
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 99'
- Medium
- Digital
- International title
- The Triple Death of the Third Character
- Language
- French
- Producers
- G.F. Jacobs, Romaine Legargeant , J.A. Pérez Giner
- Production Companies
- Producciones Zeta, Babylone Films, 2000 Productions
- Sales
- Belfilm
- Screenplay
- Helvio Soto
- Cinematography
- José Luis Alcaine
- Editor
- Anita Pérez, Monique Soussan, Rudolfo Wedeles
- Sound Design
- Antoine Bonfanti, Dominique Warnier
- Cast
- José Sacristán, André Dussollier, Marcel Dossogne, Patricia Guzmán, Vincent Grass
- Director
- Helvio Soto
- Countries of production
- Spain, France, Belgium, Chile
- Year
- 1979
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 99'
- Medium
- Digital
- International title
- The Triple Death of the Third Character
- Language
- French
- Producers
- G.F. Jacobs, Romaine Legargeant , J.A. Pérez Giner
- Production Companies
- Producciones Zeta, Babylone Films, 2000 Productions
- Sales
- Belfilm
- Screenplay
- Helvio Soto
- Cinematography
- José Luis Alcaine
- Editor
- Anita Pérez, Monique Soussan, Rudolfo Wedeles
- Sound Design
- Antoine Bonfanti, Dominique Warnier
- Cast
- José Sacristán, André Dussollier, Marcel Dossogne, Patricia Guzmán, Vincent Grass
Programme IFFR 2024
Focus: Chile in the Heart
After the coup against the democratically elected government of Chile and the murder of the nation’s president, Salvador Allende, on September 11th 1973, masses of Chileans fled the country for unknown futures far away. In 1974, spearheaded by works like Sergio Castilla’s Pinochet: fascista, asesino, traidor, agente del imperialismo and Raúl Ruiz’s Dialogue d’exilés, a historically unique phenomenon started to take shape: a Chilean cinema in exile. The vast majority of Chile’s film culture had left and were now living spread across different nations, this included already established auteurs like Patricio Guzmán (The Battle Of Chile (Part 1): The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie), Miguel Littin (Actas de Marusia) and Helvio Soto (La triple muerte del tercer personaje) as well as film students like Sebastián Alarcón (Night Over Chile), Leo Mendoza (Reír o no reír) or Luis Mora (Night of the Captain). Remarkably enough, the resulting production forms a coherent whole: it continues the Chilean cinema of the Unidad Popular, and protests against the fascism at home – while often presenting Chile as but an example for the forms of oppression and terrorism found all over the world. In an age where ever more filmmakers are forced into exile and whole communities are violently displaced, IFFR presents a grand overview of the phenomenon on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. We’ll present some twenty-five features and shorts covering the first decade of production in exile, mixing established classics with shorts and television works hardly seen since their original presentation.
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