Beyond my Grandfather Allende 2015
Distributed by Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 800-876-1710
Produced by Paola Castillo and Martha Orozco
Directed by Marcia Tambutti Allende
DVD, color and b&w, 98 min.
High School - General Adult
Family Relations, Grief, Storytelling
Date Entered: 08/11/2017
Reviewed by Brad Eden, Ph.D., Dean of Library Services, Valparaiso UniversityA military coup in Chile in 1973 deposed then-president Salvador Allende and drove his immediate family into exile. Nearly 40 years later, his family still does not know what happened to him, and the country that he loved so much barely remembers him. His granddaughter has created this film as both a memorial and a collective memory using interviews with her family and archival evidence. The pain is still deep for her family, which can be seen as she plies her relatives with questions. Trying to reconstruct history without appropriate records is difficult, but the filmmaker provides both an objective and subjective approach to her grandfather's legacy and memory.