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1973 RPM
Director: Fernando Valenzuela
Nationality: Chile (2007)
Duration: 65 minutes
Original version in Spanish and English with Spanish subtitles Director: Fernando Valenzuela
Production: Eduardo Larraín
Screenplay: Fernando Valenzuela, Rodolfo Quebleen
Photography: Cristian Lorca
Editing: Fernando Valenzuela
Sound: Rodrigo Sáez
Music: Miranda y Tobar, Gepe
Production Company: Sincronia Films
SYNOPSIS
New York, 2007. Ramiro Sandoval leaves his house. In the metro, he reads Dante's Divine Comedy , which seems to portend his future. Dante tells him “the path you are following will lead you to death. Ramiro gets off the metro. A few friends ask him, “Are they killing you again today?”
Ramiro enters into a dark space that turns out to be a theatre. His transformation begins as he makes himself up, in front of a photo of Allende. In a deserted theatre, Ramiro-Allende engages in a monologue that recreates the last hours of the life of the Chilean president, on 11 September 1973.
THE DIRECTOR
Born in 1953, Fernando Valenzuela studied Film and Sociology & Communications in Rome . Having worked as film editor and taught film editing in different countries throughout Europe and America , he has received numerous awards for his work, including Best Editor at the Havana Film Festival (1993). Moreover, he is a three-time winner of the Award for Best Advertising Film Editing in Chile . The many films he has edited include Pablo Perelman's Archipiélago (1992), Ignacio Agüero's Sueños de Hielo (1993), and Fuga (2006), directed by Ignacio Larraín.
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
> Saturno International Film Festival (Golden Saturno Award for Best Actor), Italy, 2007
