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Sweet Country (1987)Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters... See full summary » Director:Mihalis Kakogiannis |
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Ben
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Eva
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Paul
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Monica
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Juan
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Irene Papas | ... |
Mrs. Araya
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Jean-Pierre Aumont | ... |
Mr. Araya
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Pierre Vaneck | ... |
Father Venegas
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Katia Dandoulaki | ... |
Sister Mathilde
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Ann Coleman | ... |
Dorothy
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Giannis Voglis | ... |
Max
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Betty Valassi | ... |
Sara
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Dimitris Poulikakos | ... |
Torturer
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Saun Ellis | ... |
Evelyn
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Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on the eve of the military takeover of 1973, Anna is livid...and this is made worse by the fact that Eva, the ex-personal assistant to Allende's wife, has been arrested by the soldiers of the new Pinochet regime and taken into custody where she is emotionally and sexually defiled. She is released, only to be further harassed by one of her arresting officers, Raoul, who poses as her protector but wishes to rape her. Meanwhile, Anna becomes involved with a Canadian journalist named Paul, who is compiling information for an extensive journalistic treatment of the coup. Anna and Ben organize an escape for Eva, over the walls of a convent to the safety of an embassy. Written by thustlebird
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(Sweet Fatherland)
The Chilean National Anthem
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In order to achieve the feeling of horror in a scene where a gathering of female prisoners are harassed and psychologically tortured in the nude, director Michael Cacoyannis decided to appeal for volunteers rather than professional actors, asking both his associates and friends. Michael Cacoyannis interviewed women of different nationalities for casting the people in the scene, of English, French, American as well as Greek descent. Most of these women had never even seen a film camera, let alone undressed before one. Money was never an incentive for the women. Cacoyannis has said, "I explained that their inexperience in acting was an advantage. That their lack of artifice, the spirituality of their spontaneous reactions, would transcend physical realism, the way certain paintings can." At first, he was not too successful in the "recruiting" of these volunteers, but soon found the women he needed. One woman was a well-known author, another a journalist, three were college professors, others university students, secretaries or just housewives. The shooting of this sequence was completed in five very stressful hours, and the reactions were neither planned nor rehearsed. At the end of the shooting day, their eyes still full of tears, some of them expressed their gratitude for what called "a unique experience". See more »Soundtracks
"Dulce Patria"(Sweet Fatherland)
The Chilean National Anthem
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