José Maria Berzosa (15 August 1928 – 2 January 2018) was a Spanish television director who lived the most part of his life auto–exiled in France.
One of his most important productions was "Chile Impresiones" (1976), a documentary for French television whose purpose was to discredit the international image of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, the de facto administration that justified its human rights violations in the name of order and depoliticization.
The novelty of this film lies in its exposure of the Chilean reality using a methodology that combined ridicule with intimate scenes of everyday life.
Berzosa interviewed three Chilean generals, asking them questions on ontological themes such as philosophy and aesthetics about happiness, ethics and art, which none of them, except to some extent Gustavo Leigh, knew how to answer.
However, in 1956, he decided to leave the Iberian country for political reasons that involved clash of francoism censorship towards his potential professional development.