Patricio Guzmán

Patricio Guzmán is a chilean screenwriter, producer, editor and movie director.  He was born on august 11st, 1941 in Santiago. He says that his education was not went common because his family - in his own words - were "nomadic and disarticulated" so he went from school to school. Then he studied theater at the University of Chile and then he traveled to Spain to studying in the Official School of Cinematography. He returned to Chile in 1971. After his capture in 1973 for the coup d'état carried out under the command of Augusto Pinochet, Patricio Guzmán was go exiled to France.

He has made more than twenty documentary movies, among which are the trilogy of “La batalla de Chile”, “La memoria obstinada”, “Nostalgia de la luz” y “El botón de nácar”. These are his more famous films.

Most of his filmography speaks of the era of dictatorship in Chile and this is a subject that obsesses me a little. His films have a stamp of elegance and solemnity thanks to his cinematography and his incomparable voice in off. Patricio Guzman is a master talking about this so he is for me a great reference of chilean documentary film and worldwide.

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