Born in Santiago in 1941, Patricio Guzmán filmed the final months of Salvador Allende's government and the 1973 coup, which became the three-part documentary The Battle of Chile (1975–79). After the coup he lived in exile. His later documentaries, Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015, Silver Bear for best screenplay at Berlin) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019), link Chile's landscape and its history.
Filmography
- The Battle of Chile (1979)
- Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
- The Pearl Button (2015)
- The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)