FEATURE FILM / DRAMA

Red Flowers

A group of young people in southern Chile are faced with the military coup of 1973 during an act of resistance. Detained, tortured and transferred to a concentration camp, they are put on trial where it is decided that two will be killed. Luis Cruz, the prison guard assigned to the prisoners 3 days before their execution, discovers he knows them both. In their final hours, Cruz defies the system and is able to bring the prisoners together in one final moment of solidarity. Forty-four years later, he becomes the narrator of this untold story.

STAGE:

Finnancing.

DIRECTOR:

Héctor Salgado.

PRODUCERS:

Eduardo Villalobos Pino.

SCRIPT:

Héctor Salgado – Elisa Eliash.

YEAR:

2023.

COUNTRY:

Chile.

CAST:

Andrew Bargsted, Lucas Balmaceda, Diego Boggioni.

DIRECTOR'S BIO

Héctor Salgado is a filmmaker, producer, musician and human rights, advocate. He was also a political prisoner at the Naval Base on Quiriquina Island in the south of Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. Salgado speaks of the need for reconciliation based on truth, justice, and healing. Detained at the age of 16, he spent 3 years in prison and was exiled to the U.S. in 1976. He was not allowed to return to his country until 1988. His first film was a documentary film titled SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (2007) a U.S. Chile production.