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Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film |
 | | This was the milieu in which Raúl Ruiz, who would later make his career among the French avant-garde, first discovered his talent for improvisation—the improvised fiction of Tres Tristes Tigres (Three Sad Tigers, 1968) and the improvised documentary in the case of La Expropiación (Expropriation, 1972). |
| | The most extraordinary film to emerge from this period, however, was Patricio Guzmán's three-part chronicle La batalla de Chile (The Battle of Chile), a record of the tumultuous months leading up to the coup of 1973 in which Allende was overthrown. |
| | A fertile mixture of direct cinema observation and investigative reportage, the footage was smuggled out immediately after Allende's fall and edited in Cuba at ICAIC, the final part appearing in 1979. |
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