Secrets

Secrets

2008 · 85 min · ★ 4.5 · Comedy

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

Directed by Valeria Sarmiento · Written by Raúl Ruiz

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