Documentary, War
During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group they call the “Dawsonianas.”
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¡Bombardeo!
Football Under Cover
Honvéd retró
Salvador
Trabantem až na konec světa
Bodies in Crisis
The Go-Go's
Fascism in Colour
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