Chief International Correspondent

Chilean band Los Bunkers, one of the most admired rock bands in Latin America, has signed on for the music of “The Last Witness” (“El Ultimo Testigo”), a documentary portrait by Luis Poirot, a Chilean photographer who has captured many important events and figures in the country's history, from Salvador Allende to the estallido eruption of social protests in 2019 and beyond.

Some of Poirot's earliest photographs, all black and white, capture Allende during his successful presidential campaign in 1959. Poirot appointed the official photographer. He took unauthorized photographs of the presidential Palacio de la Moneda in Chile, days after Allende died there in a military coup, its windows smashed by shelling from the Chilean air force. He also photographed the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda at his beachside home on Isla Negra.

Directed by Catalan documentary filmmaker-journalist Francesc Relea ("Serrat y Sabina: The Symbol and the Tail"), "The Last Witness" captures Poirot filming best-selling author Isabel Allende ("The House of Spirits"), director Pablo Larrain ("Spencer," "El Conde") holding a camera to take pictures of Poirot, actor-theater director Alfredo Castro and Catalan singer-composer Joan Manuel Serrat, with the voice-over recording comments from them about Poirot.