Director Pablo Larraín will start shooting his new Netflix film later this year Once. The Chilean filmmaker returns to the history of his home country and tells the story of the military coup of September 11, 1973. Netflix has also announced the first details about the cast.
11 September 1973
Once is set during the military coup in Chile on September 11, 1973, one of the most dramatic events in the country’s history. The film follows eleven intertwined stories that take place in the eighteen hours after the coup. As the Chilean military seizes power, the lives of ordinary citizens, soldiers and others are irrevocably changed. The stories come together in the hours leading up to the bombing of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago and the death of President Salvador Allende.
Cast en crew
Larraín is known for films such as Maria (2024), No (2012) in Jackie (2016). For Once Larraín has assembled an impressive team around him. Alfredo Castro plays the leading role. Marcelo Alonso, Octavia Bernasconi, Roberto Farías, Fernanda Finsterbusch, Alejandro Goic, Camila Milenka, Valentina Muhr, Marcial Tagle and Lukas Vergara are also present. Behind the scenes, Larraín collaborates for the first time with multiple Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (The Irishman (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)) and Oscar winner Andrew Jackson, the visual effects supervisor behind several Christopher Nolan films. Larraín wrote the screenplay together with Guillermo Calderón.
Image: Still ‘Jackie’ via TMDb
