Patricio Guzmán

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Patricio Guzmán (2005)

Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941 in Santiago de Chile , in Chile ) is a director and producer of documentary films .

Life

Guzmàn was already enthusiastic about documentary films as a teenager. Films by Louis Malle , Frédéric Rossif and Chris Marker influenced him. He studied history and philosophy at the Universidad de Chile in the early 1960s and from 1963 to 1966 at the Film Institute of the Catholic University of Chile . He then went to Madrid and graduated from the Escuela Oficial de Cine with an examination as a film director.

On his return to Chile he became director of the documentary film workshop of Chile-Films . He completed his film about Salvador Allende's first year in office in 1971. The film was shown all over Chile. He began filming his trilogy about Allende in 1972 last year. After the coup of the armed forces on September 11, 1973, Guzmán was detained for 15 days in the national stadium in Santiago de Chile. Since Guzmán also had Spanish citizenship, he was able to travel to Spain with the completed film roles for the 4½-hour trilogy La Batalla de Chile . With the help of the Cuban Film Institute ICAIC , the film was finished and edited in Cuba .

Guzmán's other filmmaking continues to deal with themes from his homeland. In 1997 he founded the International Documentary Film Festival in Santiago de Chile. From 1997-2006 he was the director of the festival.

Guzmán lives in Paris with Renate Sachse and has two daughters, Andrea and Camila, who also make films and occasionally work on his films.

The film "The Mother of Pearl" had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. It has received praise from many reviewers. For example, Die Zeit wrote :

“The fascinating documentary" Nostalgia de la luz "is the sum of the life's work of Patricio Guzmán. .. Documentary .. which - a masterly sum of a weighty life's work - asks the big questions about where from, why and where to. "

Filmography (selection)

  • 1967: Short film: Electroshow , Prize at the Festival Latinamericano de Viña del Mar , Chile.
  • 1968: La Tortura y otras formas de diálogo
  • 1969: El Paraíso ortopédico , Prize at the Documentary and Short Film Festival in Bilbao , Spain
  • 1971: Primer Año , FIPRESCI Prize at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival in 1973
  • 1972: La Respuesta de octubre
  • 1975: La Batalla de Chile: La Insurrección de la burguesia , German: The uprising of the bourgeoisie .
  • 1977: La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado , German: The coup.
  • 1979: La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular , The power of the people.
  • 1983: Rosa de los vientos
  • 1987: El nombre de Dios , Grand Prix at the Festivale dei Popoli 1987 in Florence
  • 1992: La Cruz del Sur , Grand Prix at the Festival sur les Docs, 1992 Marseille
  • 1995: Pueblo en vilo (village at a standstill)
  • 1997: Chile, la memoria obstinada , Grand Prix at the Tel Aviv Festival 1999
  • 1999: La Isla de Robinson Crusoe
  • 2000: Invocación .
  • 2001: El Caso Pinochet . Competition in Cannes 2002.
  • 2002: Madrid .
  • 2004: Salvador Allende , Competition in Cannes 2004, Goya Prize 2005 , 100 min.
  • 2005: TV movie: Wed Julio Verne - Mon Jules Verne .
  • 2010: Nostalgia de la Luz (Nostalgia de la Luz) , European Film Award / Best Documentary (Prix ARTE).
  • 2015: The Mother of Pearl Button (El botón de nacar) , documentary, 82 '. Competition of the Berlinale , Prize: Silver Bear.
  • 2019: La Cordillera de los suenos , documentary, 85 '. Competition of the Cannes Film Festival 2019, Prize: Best Documentary.

literature

  • Patricio Guzmán: La Insurrección de la burguesia , Colección Cine Rocinante, Caracas , Venezuela 1975
  • Guión metodo de trabajo de la Batalla de Chile , Colección Hiperión, Editorial Ayuso, Madrid 1977
  • Pedro Sempere (ed.) / Patricio Guzmán: Chile: El Cine contra el Fascismo , Fernando Torres - Editor, Valencia 1977 ISBN 84-7366-095-1
  • Jorge Rufinelli: Patricio Guzmán , Cátedra / Filmoteca Española, Collección Signo e Imagen / Cineastas Latinoamericanos, Madrid 2001 ISBN 84-376-1903-3
  • Jorge Ruffinelli: El cine de Patricio Guzmán - En busca de las imágines verdaderas , Uqbar Editores, Santiago de Chile 2008 ISBN 978-956-8601-23-2
  • Library of Resistance: Volume 7, The Battle of Chile with texts by Francisco Letelier, Thomás Moulian and Régis Debray , with the director's entire film script and additional explanations from 2010, as well as the DVD with the three films; Laika Verlag, Hamburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-942281-76-8

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ www.moviemaze.de
  2. ↑ zeit.de December 23, 2010 (Silvia Hallensleben): View into distant galaxies
  3. ↑ https://www.trigon-film.org/de/movies/Cordillera_de_los_suenos/documents/Dossier_Medien.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Guzmán, Patricio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guzmán Lozanes, Patricio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean director and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile