11 minutes that captures a revolution painted on a wall—and almost no one saw it.
During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilean music group Jaspampa, formed in Leipzig in 1972.
Direction
Forch and Hofmann let the mural breathe, never lecturing.
Sound
Jaspampa's music haunts the entire 11 minutes.
Director
Juan Forch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 16th Workers' Festival was East Germany's attempt to showcase socialist internationalism—Chilean exiles were literal propaganda tools, yet subverted this by making deeply personal art.
Most of these student painters disappeared from film history; this is often their only surviving document.
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