Viva la libertad

Patricio Guzmán
1965-03-05

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13 min

Animated short that addresses social and personal issues, begins with the prison and prisoners are seen as slaves and gendarmes as the all powerful, in a celebration of the gendarmes the prison burns down and the gendarmes kill the prisoners, one manages to escape and faces the city there is a parallel between a zoo and the prison showing that it is similar, and this character releases the animals. A police chase is seen where the character runs, he enters a dead end street where they meet a bank, a church and other institutions which are compared to a jail, remaining motionless observing that any of their options are similar and it is seen that both society and the police fall on him.