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16 February 2015

Chile rattles Berlin with film about defrocked priests

A Chilean film showing defrocked priests protected by the Catholic Church and a Guatemalan film about the hard lives of Mayan coffee-farmers are making waves at the Berlin film festival. Chilean director Pablo LarraĆ­n made The Club after he realized some paedophile priests had collaborated with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet or were ordinary criminals, and had never paid for their misdeeds.

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/181709/chile-rattles-berlin-with-film-about-defrocked-pries