Roberto Parada (actor)

Roberto Parada (September 15, 1909, Concepción, Chile – November 20, 1986, Moscow, USSR) was a Chilean actor, theater director and teacher with a long career of more than 50 years on the stage, and also was a standout militant communist.

They had two children, Maria Soledad and the sociologist Jose Manuel, who while working for the Vicariate of Solidarity, assassinated by agents of the DICOMCAR (Directorate of Communications of Carabineros), repressive organ of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

The film was shot in 1983, and also featured the performances of Óscar Castro Ramírez and Marcela Osorio.

Four months later, judge José Canovas Robles established that an intelligence operative group of the Carabineros had executed the kidnappings, torture and subsequent assassination of the communist leaders.

The political persecution led him to leave the country with his wife, heading to Buenos Aires and then to Moscow, where he died on November 20, 1986.