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Stories Set in Santiago
Santiago is a modern capital in a valley under the Andes, all office towers, parks and wine bars. The 1973 coup and its aftermath made memory itself the city's great subject, from dictatorship dramas to quiet character studies. Machuca and A Fantastic Woman are the essential pair. Open Santiago on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 5 books, 21 movies, 2 TV shows and 1 game set in Santiago.
A Fantastic Woman
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
31 Minutos
Chilean television show which takes the form of a mock news broadcast, and is fronted by puppets who present various items.
Iron Maiden: En Vivo!
Filmed on 10th April 2011 in front of over 50000 ecstatic fans at the Estadio Nacional Santiago during the Round The World In 66 Days leg of The Final Frontier World Tour this concert video captures a magnificent…
Machuca
Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio"…
Sex with Love
In Santiago Chile the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Endless Poetry
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood set in the 1940s and 50s in the electric capital city of Santiago. There he decides to become a poet and is introduced by destiny into the foremost bohemian and…
Demente
Teresa Betancourt and Joaquín Acevedo will experience the worst tragedy of their lives: the kidnapping of their son Mateo. From that moment, the intentions of their entire family group will be revealed. Because in the…
Young and Wild
Daniela raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of…
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten…
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