Pedro Chaskel Movies

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of...

Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the...

Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture...

A Chilean-Cuban documentary film, by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La...

This documentary shows the inhuman conditions on which the patients of Iquique's Psychiatric Hospital live.

La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its...

A docudrama based on the family planning policies for the population with limited resources. A low-income lady resorts to clandestine ways to get an...

A family on the brink of bankruptcy decides to do dirty jobs undercover by the government to overcome their condition.

Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's...

A day in the life of an 'organillero' as he plays his music in the streets of a Chilean city.

A boy goes to his friend's funeral procession. When he realizes that his grave does not have flowers like the others, and that he does not have money...

Examines the mind and work of artist Juan Luis Martinez. Martinez's contemporaries expound upon his of reality and the political climate in Chile.

The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

Documentary that explores the "Archives of Horror" of the General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, discovered in Paraguay in 1992 and in the...

A maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the...

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the...

Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.