A FILM documentary telling of how four women fared after the bloody military coup in Chile in 1973 is to be given its British premiere in Liverpool.
There will be a special showing of Cruel Separation, produced by Hollywood’s George Scott and narrated by Donald Sutherland, at the People’s Centre, on Mount Pleasant, on Saturday.
It will then be shown to audiences of up to 60 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights next week.
The American-backed coup resulted in the socialist government of President Salvador Allende being replaced by the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
The women, from widely different backgrounds featured in the 82-minute film, are Hortensia Bussi de Allende, widow of President Salvador Allende, who was killed in the coup; Joan Jara, English widow of a Chilean political singer-songwriter; Joyce Horman, whose story was made internationally famous in Costa-Gavras’s Oscar-winning film Missing; and Angela Jeria de Bachelet, wife of an Air Force General loyal to President Allende.
Funding for the $6m film came from the Ford Foundation
TICKET details from Margaret Farrell at the People’s Centre on 0151 709 3995.
