The film’s July premiere in Santiago unsettled many audiences because Chile remains deeply divided over Pinochet’s regime.
He shut down Congress, outlawed political parties and forced thousands of dissidents into exile, while his police tortured and killed thousands more.
But loyalists saw him as a fatherly figure who oversaw Chile’s growth into economic prosperity and kept it from becoming a failed socialist state.
“Given the entrenched and violent nature of Pinochet’s dictatorship, the No Campaign’s victory is all the more dramatic,” said Peter Kornbluh, author of “The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.”
Forty years after the coup, Kornbluh said, “It is not only important to remember how he took power, but was forced to relinquish it.”
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