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On September 11, 1973, he was overthrown by a military coup… The dictator of Pinochet crushed that democracy which had perfected itself over two centuries, and destroyed, day after day, for 18 years, the country I knew.

Thousands of Chileans were murdered and tortured and hundreds of thousands went into exile.

This homage that Guzmán pays to Chile’s ex-president reminds us of the radiant dream that a generation lived (where politics and utopia were synonyms).

The piece is direct. It has no explicative or demonstrative information; rather, it offers a space for reflection that is human and personal and at the same time historical.

The outcome is a generous film. “Salvador Allende” sold 120,000 tickets in France, with 34 copies in 5 months (from September 2004 to January 2005).

It premiered in theaters in: Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico, Austria, Italy, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile (50,000 viewers).