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Der Traum des Sandino (1981)
Directed by Rudi Palla, Margareta Heinrich
Documentary · 1h 57m
19 months after the fall of the dictator Somoza, the Austrian film team travels across Nicaragua for seven weeks (from August 4th to September 20th, 1980) and gathers information, mostly from farmers, workers, market women and soldiers. We are shown life in the Fincas, the agricultural co-operatives, in a banana plantation of Standard Fruit, a private corporation, in the "Carlos Roberto Huembes Hospital" in La Esperanza which is run by Austrians. A report on Nicaragua of 1980 which discusses the dream of the murdered freedom fighter of Nicaragua, General C.A. Sandino and whether it has been realized and answers this question affirmativeley. In spite of the present and threatening difficulties, the film is optimistic.
Cast
Linde Prelog
Crew
- Director
- Rudi Palla, Margareta Heinrich
- Writer
- Manfred Kaufmann, Rudi Palla, Margareta Heinrich
- Director of Photography
- Rudi Palla
- Editor
- Henriette Fischer
Details
- Release date
- 1981-03-27
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Nicaragua, Austria
- Production
- Extrafilm