What Is to Be Done?
Top 9 Billed Cast
SImon Vallejo
Martin Scott Bradford
Osvaldo Alarcon
Irene Alarcon
Kidnapper
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Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.
Release Date
1972-05-09
Average
5.7
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