Family Coup (2022)

8.5/10 16 min Comedy History

Overview

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist dictator Augusto Pinochet found themselves forced to share their home with the spirit of the late former socialist president Salvador Allende, who was portrayed by a puppet. This short film aims to salvage this show's existence by extracting fragments from its surviving material.

Cast

Germán Pinilla

Augusto

Paco Pasquette

Chicho the Ghost

Carolina Paulsen

Lucía

Pablo Schwarz

Admiral José Toribio Merino

Carlos Donoso

General César Mendoza

Cristián Carvajal

General Gustavo Leigh

Francisco Schultz

Gorilla

Álvaro Morales

Narrator (voice)

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