Monday, March 24, 2014

March 24 - Romero

Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on March 24. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.

ROMERO                         

Conservative bishop  Óscar Romero is named Archbihop of San Salvador because he is seen as a bookworm who will not upset the existing poltical applecart. However, after the massacre of innocent civilians and the assassination of his best friend  Father Rutilio Grande, he moves into opposition. Then Rafeal Zelada, the minister of Agriculture  is kidnapped by rebels and eventually killed, in spite of efforts by Romero to get him released. After a priest is arrested and tortured, Romero refuses to attend the inauguration of  Gen. Carlos Humberto Romero as President of El Salvadsor. When the army turns a church in a suspected rebel village into a barracks, Romero goes there and leads the parishioners straight into the guns of the soldiers, forcing them to back down and celebrates mass in the church. When rioters seize a soldier as a hostage, Romero goes to try and broker a deal. When the army reneges on the deal Romero is arrested along with the rebels. He is released, but on March 24, 1980 [1:37:49 to 1:40:45] he is assassinated by the government.           

A good biopic. Romero was a brave man and a real Christian. Well worth watching.

A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez-Brignoli (University of  California Press, Los Angeles, 1989) at page 191 and the film at 1:41:00 give the date of Romerp’s assassination.

Producer - Fr. Ellwood (Bud) Kieser

Director - John Duigan

Screenplay - John Sacret Young

Runtime – 1 hour 42 minutes

Released - August 25, 1989

Starring –       

Raúl Juliá as Archbishop Óscar Romero.
Richard Jordan as Fr. Rutilio Grande, SJ.
Alejandro Bracho as Fr. Alfonzo Osuña, SJ.
Tony Plana as Fr. Manuel Morantes, SJ.
Lucy Reina as Lucia
Ana Alicia as Arista Zelada
Omar Chagall as Rafael Zelada
Harold Gould as Francisco Galedo
Eddie Velez as Lt. Ricardo Columa
Robert Viharo as Col. Ernesto Dorio.
Harold Cannon as Gen. Carlos Humberto Romero.
Al Ruscio as Bishop Estrada.
Claudio Brook as Bishop Flores.
Martin LaSalle as Bishop Arturo Rivera y Damas


Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014. 



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