The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Chavez: Inside the Coup)

‘The revolution will not be televised’ is a thrilling insight into Chavez, charting the last seven months in the run up to the coup and his dramatic return to power some 48 minutes later. Never has such a range of footage of Chavez, the new icon of the left and the thorn in the side of the US Administration, be assembled in one documentary. The film invents a way of total reporting. Nothing is missing: live recordings of the turns of events, visits behind the scenes and in private with Hugo himself, nor what must indeed be called the heat of events. At certain points, this breath-taking chronicle is punctuated by an on-the-spot in-depth analysis of the manipulations by de military and the media.