Santiago, Chile, September 11, 1973. As the military coup unfolds across the country, Captain Jorge Silva —former head of Air Force Intelligence— receives an order that will change his life forever: to turn the Air Force Academy, where he now trains young cadets, into a detention and torture center.
Convinced that the horror will be short-lived, Silva tries to stay on the sidelines. But the arrival of Colonel Jahn —an old rival returning with unchecked power and unfinished business— forces him to confront not only his past but also his deepest beliefs.
As trucks begin to fill the hangar with prisoners and power grows increasingly ruthless, Silva finds himself trapped at an impossible crossroads: disobedience could cost him his life… but obedience might too.
Inspired by true events and shot in black and white, The Red Hangar is the first Latin American thriller to explore the inner workings of the military world during the dictatorships of the 1970s. A restrained, intimate, and deeply political story about men ensnared in the machinery of power at the precise moment history forces them to choose sides.