Bristol Radical Film Festival and The Cube presents:
Dir: Felipe Bustos Sierra, 2018, United Kingdom 96 mins, Cert 12 A
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Sat 4 November 2023 // 13:30
Tickets: £5 (full)
Part of the 2023 Bristol Radical Film Festival.
The feature-length documentary tells the story of four Scotsmen - Bob Fulton, John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Stuart Barrie - who along with their workmates downed tools and refused to service and repair engines for the Chilean air force's British-made Hawker Hunter jet fighters. It explores just how significant their actions were in depriving the Chilean military dictatorship of much of its air power, contrary to the latter's claims at the time, through witness statements not only from several victims of the 1973 military coup but also from the unrepentant former Chilean Air Force chief Fernando Rojas Vender.] Following Chile's return to democracy, three of the four Scotsmen - Fulton, Keenan and Somerville - were awarded the highest honour which the Chilean government can bestow on foreigners, the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins, at the rank of Commander (Comendador), during a 2015 ceremony in Glasgow by Chile's ambassador to the UK, Rolando Drago.
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