Dawson: Isla 10, directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin, is the story of a group of prisoners held at a detention camp on Dawson Island back in the early days of the reign of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Various cabinet ministers who served under democratically elected Socialist Salvador Allende – overthrown by Pinochet’s military (with the help of the CIA) in 1973 – were imprisoned on Dawson, a desert island at the tip of South America.
Based on Sergio Bitar’s 1987 autobiographical book Isla 10, Littin’s film chronicles the stories of a group of men, played impeccably by an excellent cast.
Dawson: Isla 10 was Chile’s submission to the Foreign Language category of the 2010 Academy Awards.