Peter Raymont’s “A Promise to the Dead” opens the New York Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, which runs June 12 to 26 at the Walter Read Theater at Lincoln Center. The full festival schedule is now available online from Human Rights Watch.
“A Promise to the Dead” chronicles Raymont’s travels to Chile with writer and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman, at the time when Augusto Pinochet, Allende’s overthrower and Dorfman’s long-time nemesis, is dying. Raymont follows Dorfman through emotional reunions with his friends and fellow resistors, to personal landmarks that are powerful both emotionally and historically.
As background to the film, Human Rights Watch has posted the organization’s work on the Pinochet prosecution.
