Mining the same harrowing history as his Chilean and Latin American contemporaries (more recently El Conde) — from Argentina to Uruguay, Paraguay and beyond, Felipe Gálvez confronts the enduring shadow of Augusto Pinochet during his end days. Deadline reports that the filmmaker will direct Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Gálvez has quite the international producer backing for the sophomore film. We can’t wait for casting news.
Adapted by Gálvez, Mariano Llinás (must see 2018’s La Flor) and re-teaming with The Settlers scribe Antonia Girardi, this is based on the book 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands, it follows an ex-spy hired to prevent the escape of the Chilean dictator after his capture in London unleashes geopolitical unrest. Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in Chile by former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón before he was arrested in 1998 at the London Bridge hospital. He was held under house a rest for a year and a half before being released by the UK government in 2000.
Rei Pictures and Quiddity are producing along with co-producers Les Films du Worso in Paris, Danish outfit Snowglobe and Italian label Volos Films Italia.
