Family Coup

Nov 23, 2022

0h 16m

★ 8.5

Overview

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist dictator Augusto Pinochet found themselves forced to share their home with the spirit of the late former socialist president Salvador Allende, who was portrayed by a puppet. This short film aims to salvage this show's existence by extracting fragments from its surviving material.

Genres

Comedy

History

Production Companies

Pista B

Diluvio

Dantesco Media

Family Coup Trailers

Cast

Augusto

Germán Pinilla

Chicho the Ghost

Paco Pasquette

Lucía

Carolina Paulsen

Jacqueline

Anaís Moreno

Marco Antonio

Joaquín Rodríguez

Admiral José Toribio Merino

Pablo Schwarz

General César Mendoza

Carlos Donoso

General Gustavo Leigh

Cristián Carvajal

Gorilla

Francisco Schultz

Narrator (voice)

Álvaro Morales

2nd Narrator (voice)

José Tomás Herreros

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