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.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Johanna Tomek, Linde Prelog, Günter Peiritsch
Crew: Henriette Fischer (Editor), Rudi Palla (Director), Manfred Kaufmann (Writer), Rudi Palla (Director of Photography), Rudi Palla (Writer), Margareta Heinrich (Writer)
Country: Nicaragua, Austria
Language: Deutsch
Studio: Extrafilm
Runtime: 117 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 27, 1981
IMDb: 10
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