

Family Coup
"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.
Cast

Germán Pinilla
Augusto

Paco Pasquette
Chicho the Ghost

Carolina Paulsen
Lucía
Anaís Moreno
Jacqueline
Joaquín Rodríguez
Marco Antonio

Pablo Schwarz
Admiral José Toribio Merino

Carlos Donoso
General César Mendoza

Cristián Carvajal
General Gustavo Leigh

Francisco Schultz
Gorilla

Álvaro Morales
Narrator (voice)
José Tomás Herreros
2nd Narrator (voice)
Videos
Storyline
"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.
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