Kill Pinochet

Kill Pinochet (Matar a Pinochet, known early in the production stage as Los fusileros) is a 2020 internationally co-produced thriller drama film directed by Juan Ignacio Sabatini. It is based on the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet in September 1986.

It follows the story of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front members as they develop a plan to kill the Chilean dictator in Cajón del Maipo in 1986, known as "Operación Siglo XX".

Plot
The film is set in Chile during September 1986, a time when the country was enduring 13 years of dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Feeling exhausted by the situation, Ramiro and Tamara gather their somewhat inexperienced comrades-in-arms to plan an assassination attempt against the dictator. Tamara, who leads the guerrillas of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, sees no other solution but to kill Pinochet. However, despite being so close to revolution, Tamara could not change the course of history due to espionage and betrayal. This is a true story-based movie.

Production
Kill Pinochet is Juan Ignacio Sabatini debut as a director of a fiction feature film. He penned the screenplay alongside Enrique Videla and Pablo Paredes. A joint Chile–Argentina–Spain international co-production, Kill Pinochet was produced by Villano alongside DDRio Estudio, Leyenda Cine, Potenza Producciones and Fusileros la película AIE, in association with Primate Lab and with support from Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual, CORFO, INCAA, ICAA and Ibermedia. Shooting locations included Santiago and Valparaíso.

Release
In the wake of the health situation of Chile caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the film had an online pre-screening at the streaming platform Punto Play on 12 November 2020, with a streaming window at Punto Ticket scheduled to last until 6 December 2020. It also screened at the 46th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival on 14 November 2020, and it was theatrically released in Spain on 20 November 2020.

Awards and nominations

 * align = "center" rowspan = "2" | 2021 || 8th Platino Awards || colspan = "2" | Best Ibero-American Debut Film || Nominated ||
 * 29th EnergaCamerimage Film Festival || Director's Debut Competition || || Nominated || align = "center" |
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 * 29th EnergaCamerimage Film Festival || Director's Debut Competition || || Nominated || align = "center" |
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