Der Traum des Sandino
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.
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Margareta Heinrich Director · Rudi Palla Director Manfred Kaufmann Writer
First release March 27, 1981 · Produced in Nicaragua, Austria
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Extrafilm
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Nicaragua · Austria
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German
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German
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Austria · March 27, 1981
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