Allende en su laberinto

I know the barebones facts about Salvador Allende - the very barebones facts. He was a socialist who was elected President of Chile and sought to lead a peaceful socialist revolution. He was virulently opposed by the United States, and eventually overthrown and died during a coup by the Chilean military with the assistance of the CIA, ushering in a time of violent and ruthless fascist rule of Chile by a military junta under the leadership of Augusto Pinochet.

I knew all that. It's only the basics, but it was enough knowledge to make me intrigued by this movie. For the most part it didn't disappoint. It details the last few hours of Allende's life, as he and his supporters wall themselves up inside the presidential palace and fight desperately, hoping for some miracle that would save them. The miracle, of course, didn't come. I thought it was a pretty convincing account of Allende's last seven hours, but that was also its great weakness. Knowing only the barebones facts, I would have appreciated a little more about the political situation in Chile. How did we get to this last day of Allende's presidency and life? Without knowing much about the internal workings of the Chilean politics of that era, I found myself a little bit lost. Having to watch it with subtitles (because I don't speak Spanish and it wasn't dubbed into English) was also a bit distracting, although the story itself is clear and straightforward enough.

Overall I liked it. I just wish it had offered a little bit more background to the coup and how it came about. (7/10)

Jake Griffin Allende Movie Review

This movie is based on the history of Salvador Allende trying to get overthrown as the Chilean President by the military and influences of the United States. It portrays the betrayal of the Chilean military and how the United States influenced people to turn on their president. The director of "Allende en su laberinto" is Miguel Littin. He has directed over 10 movies. I think the director is pretty good for a southern American director. Compared to American directors however, he isn't that good… like at all. This film is clearly created four South America to enjoy.

The director clearly makes his point that the United States is the enemy here and they are the ones that virtually initiated the overthrow of Salvador Allende. The film makes its point that almost everyone turned on Allende, except his tight circle of people who would die for him, literally. I think the director did a good job to show that Salvador Allende was just trying to fix the country of Chile and generally be a peaceful guy about it.

I don't believe there are many historical inaccuracies in this film. From everything that I checked it seems to be very well made when it comes to the history. Except for the fact that Allende is thought to have killed himself and the movie portrays otherwise. Other than that not much historical inaccuracies. The director was most definitely biased however. He really made the point to make the United States look like the big bad villains in this movie. Every time Salvador Allende said "Nixon" he said it with pure hate. This movie, in a way, is anti United States.

The director made it his duty to tell us that The United States were the ones that were influencing people against Allende. But, he never really explained to us why the United States was doing this. He put so much effort into the USA looking like horrible villains, when he never really put in the script why they were doing it in the first place. After looking up information, I figured out that the United States wanted Allende overthrown because his ideas were to close to the ones of the Soviet Union, aka Communism. There's a documentary that was made in 2004 called "Salvador Allende" and IMDb rated it 7.7/10 stars. This was one of the only things I could find that related to this movie. A lot more people seemed to like this more than this movie and I haven't seen this documentary but I can say i'd probably agree based on just seeing this movie alone.

I think the actor that played Salvador Allende wasn't bad at all. He was definitely the best actor on the cast by far. The film itself, is not good. Its boring, hard to figure out what's going on during parts, and very very bad special effects. Like really really bad. I can maybe see this movie being big in Chile because this guy is like a big deal for them. But in America, this movie would be considered sucky and would not fly with the Hollywood blockbusters America is known for making. In Conclusion, if i had to rate this movie out of 5 stars, i'm gonna be generous and give it 3/10 stars.

The movie Allende en su Laberinto is a great movie. The film was about Salvador Allende's last hours of being president. It showed how the military did not like Allende and how they overthrew the government. It also showed how and why the United States got involved in the war. This movie was created for people who like history and for the people who is interested in the history of Chili. Miguel Littin did a good job with writing and directing. I liked the part of the movie where the President gave his last speech. He did a good job capturing everyone feelings at the time. Daniel Munoz did a good job acting as president. They captured was it was like being president.

This movie premiered on last thursday, and i went to watch it today at Cinemark Alto Las Condes. This movie is about the last 7 hours of the former president of Chile Salvador Allende and shows us how Salvador and his collaborators experienced the coup d'etat inside "La Moneda" (Chilean Government Palace) and how they tried to resist the bombing done by the Air Force ordered by the Junta Militar.

I have to say that Daniel Muñoz did a very good job acting as Salvador Allende and also Aline Kuppenheim did a great acting too, but i was really disappointed when i saw the supporting actors and actress, when they were saying the lines they didn't sound real at all.

Miguel Littin has good directing skills, i'm not sure if he wanted to, but this movie is a little bit similar to Der Untergang (downfall), which shows Hitler's last hours inside the Bunker before the allies bombed Berlin.

It's great that this movie finally could be filmed in La Moneda, that made it a little bit more realistic, the problem is that the visual effects aren't good at all, the bombings looks very fake, the fire and the smoke too, and the camera movement is annoying sometimes.

I gave this movie 6 stars out of 10. If you are chilean or you are interested in Chilean history, you should definitely watch it, but don't expect a very good movie.

The movie Allende en su Laberinto was directed by Miguel Littin in 2014. It seems that the director wanted to create a film that showed the true events that happened on September 11, 1973 at the Presidential Palace. It wanted to show how the Chilean military partnered with the United States in order to overthrow Allende from his power. This movie was created for the people of Chile in order to give them a dramatization of their own history. It was created to inform people about the topic and so Chileans do not forget what had happened. The director makes a point throughout the movie to show how the people in the Palace were all alone with no one to help. The police retreated and many people left the building. Allende was informed that the military has turned against him completely and no one would come to help. Allende finally established that he would stay to his death. The message of the story is very clear. It is obviously showing the viewers the events that happened on that day. The viewers did not have to dig in order to understand the movie. Throughout the movie, there was not any historical errors. The movie uses the accurate names and time of day the events happened. Overall, the director failed to inform the viewers enough on the reason as to why the military was overthrowing Allende. This film does seem bias because it shows the United States as the "bad guys" and the viewers do not get enough information about them in order to make their own judgement. Up until this point, there are documentaries about this topic. The way the director portrayed the events seemed to be accurate and reasonable. The film showed the events that happened accurately to my knowledge. Overall, this film was poorly made. The way the special effect were created were terrible. When the palace was getting blown up, the sound portrayed glass breaking and the walls collapsing, however none of this ever happened in the movie. Also the fire that was in the movie looked beyond fake and did not seem to affect any of the people in the building. As far as the acting goes, it seemed as if some dialogue did not belong in relevance to what was going on around them. There were people shooting and explosions sounding, however Allende had time to have deep conversations with people. Another issue was the audience did not get a view of what was happening on the outside of the palace. The movie did not show the opposing forces at all.