El Realismo Socialista, 1973

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«La película es un relato coral, donde se van encadenando distintos mundos. Por un lado el de los obreros y el lumpen, con el personaje Lucho a la cabeza, y por otro, el de un grupo de intelectuales partidarios de la Unidad Popular que se agrupan en un frente poético, más representantes de la pequeña burguesía. En determinado momento, estos personajes se cruzan en una aparente amistad que termina en escenas de mucha acción, con cruce de balazos y canciones destempladas, que producen una lectura satírica de la época»

"The film is a choral narrative, in which different worlds are linked together. On the one hand, there is the world of the workers and the lumpen, led by the character Lucho; on the other, that of a group of intellectuals who support the Popular Unity, who come together in a poetic front, along with representatives of the petty bourgeoisie. At a certain point, these characters intersect in an apparent friendship that ends in scenes of intense action, with exchanges of gunfire and off-key songs, producing a satirical reading of the era." (Translation: Duke GPT and Google Translate)

Raúl Ruiz (poetastros.com, accessed 2026 March 3)

From 2020 to 2022, the Rubenstein Library partnered with the production company Poetastros to provide footage from the collection for the reconstruction of El Realismo Socialista. Along with creating preservation scans for the project, timecoded access copies of the picture reels -- including negatives converted to positive -- were created and are available here. The picture and sound files have not been synchronized, as their source reels were not paired together.

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