Country: , Costarica
Year: 2002
Duration: 51'


July 19, 1979: the Sandinista Liberation Front conquers Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, overthrowing the regime of the dictator Anastasio Somoza. The last people's revolution of the twentieth century is a triumph. Its spirit inspires the existence of the people: its story is told by mothers who gave birth when anything seemed possible. It is also told by those children who grew up during the period when their dreams were demolished by the counter-revolution. An airplane pilot bears witness to the original revolutionary desire, a midwife remembers how she helped bring an entire village into the world.

"This film distrusts nostalgia: it only occupies itself with that which remains, or rather, with the question of whether the dreams of a revolution can be passed on to its children. It is made with simple, homemade shots which unite revolutionary and counter-revolutionary families whose lives were disrupted by civil war. It is a film made of funny and dramatic stories, stories of boys and girls who were born in a state of confusion, of danger, in exile, and who grew up to become men and women in a country where the future is in the hands of men of the past" (L. Capelli, Y. Ross, A. Ruggeri).

Biography

film director

Luciano Capelli

Luciano Capelli made various documentaries for RAI between 1975 and 1986. In 1987 he was sent as a representative of Italian cooperation to Costa Rica to work with the Universidad para la Paz, a United Nations organization. From 1997 to 1998 he made various multi-medial projects for UNICEF, the European Union and Radio Nederland. His film El Barco Prometido won the 2001 Icaro Award as best Central American documentary and participated at festivals in Biarritz, Havana, Malaga and Caracas.

FILMOGRAFIA

Luciano Capelli: Lo que cuesta el oro (cm, 1990), Cueste lo que cueste (cm, 1991, co-regia Mercedes Ramírez), Cuando el río suena, piedras trae (1992, co-regia Mercedes Ramírez), Las palabras de la tierra (cm, 1993, co-regia Mercedes Ramírez), El paisaje olvidado (cm, 1995), El barco prometido (2000).

Andrea Ruggeri

Andrea Ruggeri has worked as assistant director for Ermanno Olmi. In 1997, he and Luciano Capelli founded the group Dodo Brothers. Since 1984 he alternates working as a filmmaker and as a copywriter. Many of his advertising films have won prizes in their categories in New York and Cannes. In 1998 he published his first novel, Potemkin Cola.

FILMOGRAFIA

Andrea Ruggeri: Portugal (cm, 1976), Chiapas (cm, 1996), Radio Alice, 20 anni dopo (cm, 1997), Hula hula ( cm, 1998), Spotters (cm, 2002).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, fotografia: Luciano Capelli, Andrea Ruggeri.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Yazmín Ross.
Sound: Nano Fernández.
Music: Marco Liguori.
Editor: Luciano Capelli, Andrea Ruggeri, Yazmín Ross.
Production company: Roberto Calanca e Río Nevado Producciones, Box mail 11732, 1000 San JosÈ, Costa Rica, tel. +506-2802521 e +506-2258730, fax +506-2244412, e-mail paraiso@racsa.co.cr.
Distribuzione, vendita all'estero: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, Italia, tel. +39-051-267150, fax 39-051-267310, e-mail vitagraph@libero.it.
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