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Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director who is internationally renowned for anti-neoliberalist films such as The Battle of Chile (1975-79) and The Pinochet Case (2001). A still in the film.

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Patricio Guzmán

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  • Born
    August 11, 1941 · Santiago, Chile
  • Birth name
    Patricio Guzmán Lozanes

Biography

  • Patricio Guzmán was born on August 11, 1941 in Santiago, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975) and The Southern Cross (1991).

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  • Children
      Camila Guzmán Urzúa
      Andrea Guzmán Urzúa

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  • Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2013.
  • Chilean documentary film director.
  • Resides in France since 1973.
  • Was the director of the trilogy The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975), The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976) and The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979) that portrays the coup d'état against Salvador Allende by Augusto Pinochet. The cameraman of these documentaries, Jorge Müller Silva, was disappeared by the Pinochet's agents in 1974.

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