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International Festival of Audiovisual Programs

50 ans de maquis

Fifty Years of a Guerilla

The fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to sound the death knell of communist ideals and announce the "natural" disappearance of Latin-American revolutionary groups. Cut off from their Muscovite "fountainhead", they seemed destined to die out. But, ten years on, not only are they still there, but they are growing stronger. Long considered the result of the Cold War, and thus doomed to die with it, the unexpectedly defiant vigor of these movements today forces us to reconsider their presence and examine them from a new viewpoint. Manuel Marulanda Velez is the legendary chief of the most powerful guerrilla force in Latin America, and he probably is the oldest guerrilla fighter in activity anywhere in the world: even before he even heard the term "cold war," he was fighting for survival in a country where violence seems like an endemic inevitability.
France - 1999 - 52 mn - Betacam SP - Colour
Réalisation
Yves Billon
Scénario
Pablo Alejandro
Image
Yves Billon
Son
Sybille Hayem
Montage
Antonio Wagner

Production et Ventes
Les Films du Village

Co-Production
Odyssée, Cityzen TV