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Salvador Allende Gossens: A Testimony
197418 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Maurice BulbulianMichel Gauthier
Production: Jean-Marc Garand
A brief acquaintance with the president of Chile before his assassination in September, 1973. In 1972, several miners from Québec went to Chile to observe mining operations there. They also met with the President of the Republic. Salvador Allende explains, publicly at a meeting of icampanneros r, as well as in a conference with the visitors, the revolutionary socio-economic reforms he envisages for his country, which include nationalization of the copper industry. René Lévesque, Théo Gagné and Joseph Gosselin appear in the film. (A film for all students of political change. With English subtitles).
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- Politics and Government > Colonialism and IndependencePortraits
- Mining > Mining IndustriesWork Issues
- Developing Countries > Politics, Government and HistoryPortraitsSouth America
- Media Education > AdvertisingJournalism/News
- Social Studies > Social History
- History > World History
Credits
- director
- Maurice Bulbulian
- Michel Gauthier
- producer
- Jean-Marc Garand
- camera
- Martin Duckworth
- Pierre Letarte
- sound
- Richard Besse