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Guzmán is, perhaps, "the good German," a citizen blind to the crimes around him until chance forces him into an investigation he never sought and didn't want. As a young man he had served briefly as a clerk in the Court of
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petitions filed on behalf of victims, many of whom had disappeared into secret detention centers. Nearly all the petitions were denied, and Juan Guzmán wrote some of those denials. Had they been granted, many lives would have been saved. Viewers watch as he struggles with this memory and describes
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Manuel Donoso was a young sociology professor killed just after the coup. The documentary cuts back and forth between a disinterment of Donoso's remains and his wife's story, as she recounts his arrest, torture and death. The case widens out as the documentary moves between past and present, and
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to her daughter's hiding place in order to save a granddaughter's life. Judge Guzmán and detectives investigate this case from, among other locations, a boat off the
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and supported the 1973 violent military coup led by
General Pinochet. Then in 1998, he was assigned by judicial lottery the first criminal cases against Pinochet. (Judges in Chile investigate, prosecute, and try cases.) Filmmakers
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tells a story of personal transformation, as a
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