Aline Küppenheim

Nicolás Sepúlveda

Hugo Medina

Alejandro Goic

Carmen Gloria Martinez

Amalia Kassai

Gabriel Urzúa

Luis Cerda

Ana Clara Delfino

Elena Delfino

Salvador Guenel

Marcial Tagle

Antonia Zegers

Vilma Verdejo

Mauricio Pesutic

Yasna Ríos

Francisco Ossa

Jacinta Vidal

Elvis Fuentes

Mora Recalde

Marco Antonio Donoso

Ernesto Meléndez

Germán de Silva

Graciela Tenenbaum

Cesar Campusano

Patricio Lever

Yolanda Navarro

Patricia Rodríguez

Gastón Chamorro

Jorge Castillo

Francisco Ovalle

Paula Godoy

Pablo Valenzuela

Sebastián Videla

Gabriela Gonzalez

Wally Flores

Marcela Salinas

Julián Marras

Felipe Corrales

Andrés Eyzaguirre

Paulette Fabres

Rodrigo Ferrer

Paula Galleguillos

Luciano Jadrievich

Santino Martelli

Jacinta Rodríguez

Natalia Salgado

Meury Sofia Zambrano

Manuela Martelli

Alejandra Moffat

Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Dominga Sotomayor

Andrés Wood

Nathalia Videla Peña

Juan Pablo Gugliotta

Soledad Rodríguez

Francisca Correa

Camila Mercadal

Alejandra García

Valeria Goffreri

Catalina Peralta

Gwenn Joyaux

Waldo Salgado

Alejandro Baldasso

Nicolas Mannara

Fernando Marín

Andrés Polonsky

Mercedes Tennina

Jesica Suárez

Camilo Peralta

Maximiliano Pérez

Josefina Pérez-García

Mariá Portugal

José Izquierdo Leiva

Pepe Blanco

Carolina Schilling

María José Concha

Lenny Gutierrez

Pamela Archetti

Yanina Puntorello

Evgeniia Rylova

Estefania Larrain

Héctor Morales

Pilar Calderon

Luciano Hormazábal

Azul Castillo

Genesis Rodríguez

Drama

1976

Cinestación

Magma Cine

Argentina

Chile

CinemaSerf

Aline Küppenheim turns in quite an impressive performance here as the middle class woman, married to a doctor, who finds herself embroiled in some clandestine activities at the height of the Pinochet administration in Chile. All she actually wants to do is get their beach house repainted, but when the local priest (Hugo Medina) approaches "Carmen" and asks her to take care of an injured young man, she finds herself exposed to quite a few dangers as she discovers "Elías" (Nicolás Sepúlveda) has a bullet hole in him and is on the run with the police looking for him. Over the next ninety minutes we get quite a sense of the peril in which she has to live; of her nervously sneaking about watching her own every move; telling lies and swapping buses when she travelled - all more akin to something from a John Le Carré novel rather than life in a supposedly civilised 1970s nation. What adds to the effectiveness of this drama is the fact that aside from some television actuality, we see little of the actual oppressiveness of the regime. It's the changes in her behaviour and her attitude to the young "Elías" that subtly embeds the sense of menace throughout the film. I didn't love the soundtrack and some might not like the inconclusiveness of the denouement, but I found that - like life in this turmoil-ridden country itself, made it all the more potent. Worth a watch.