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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