'Missing' Film: American Journalist Disappeared In Sept. 11, 1973 Chilean Coup; Jack Lemmon (1982)

[appalachiablue]

- "Missing" is a 1982 American historical drama film directed by Costa-Gavras and starring Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Janice Rule and Charles Cioffi. It is based on a book that was first published under the title The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice (1978) by Thomas Hauser (later republished under title, Missing, 1982), and inspired by the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US- backed Chilean coup of 1973, that deposed the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende.

Set largely during the days and weeks following Horman's disappearance, the movie depicts his father and wife searching to determine his fate. The film examines the relationship between Horman's wife Beth (Spacek) and her father-in-law, American businessman Edmund Horman (Lemmon).

The film was released theatrically on February 12, 1982. It was shown in competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where it was jointly awarded the Palme d'Or (along with the Turkish film Yol). It received four nominations at the 55th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lemmon), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Spacek) and winning Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium).

The film was banned in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, even though neither Chile nor Pinochet is ever mentioned by name (although the Chilean cities of Viña del Mar and Santiago are). A sign of Lan Chile can also be seen in the background when Beth and Edmund meet for the first time in the movie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_(1982_film)

- Chilean Coup, Sept. 11, 1973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[BootinUp]

1. good flick! nt

[appalachiablue]

2. Excellent, I saw when the film opened & was in Santiago

briefly before the turmoil later in 1973.

[BootinUp]

8. Another movie in this genre that I like is

The Interpreter with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.

[dhill926]

3. this is a GREAT movie....

[erronis]

4. Thanks for bringing this up - a powerful film, and very relevant in our own totalianarism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a term for a political system or form of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form of authoritarianism. In totalitarian states, political power has often been held by autocrats who employ all-encompassing campaigns in which propaganda is broadcast by state-controlled mass media.[1]

Totalitarian regimes are often characterized by extensive political repression, a complete lack of democracy, widespread personality cultism, absolute control over the economy, massive censorship, mass surveillance, limited freedom of movement (most notably freedom to leave the country) and widespread use of state terrorism. Other aspects of a totalitarian regime include the use of concentration camps, repressive secret police, religious persecution or state atheism, the common practice of executions, fraudulent elections (if they take place), possible possession of weapons of mass destruction and potentially state-sponsored mass murder and genocides. Historian Robert Conquest describes a totalitarian state as one which recognizes no limit on its authority in any sphere of public or private life and it extends that authority to whatever length is feasible.[1]

The concept was first developed in the 1920s by both Weimar jurist and later Nazi academic Carl Schmitt and concurrently the Italian fascists. Italian fascist Benito Mussolini said: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state". Schmitt used the term Totalstaat in his influential 1927 work The Concept of the Political on the legal basis of an all-powerful state.[2] The term gained prominence in Western anti-communist political discourse during the Cold War era as a tool to convert pre-World War II anti-fascism into post-war anti-communism.[3][4][5][6][7

[appalachiablue]

6. Very well done film with awards nominations

for this gripping historical drama. The Wiki on T. covers the basics of the subject to the letter, thanks.

[MuseRider]

5. That film was well done

and very good. I remember being horrified by all of this.

[Swede]

7. Missing theme by Vangelis.

May contain spoilers.

[appalachiablue]

9. Good, I saw but didn't think of adding this one-