The Feast of the Goat (2005)
"La fiesta del chivo" (original title)

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

Director:

Luis Llosa

Writers:

Augusto Cabada, Luis Llosa,

Stars:

Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman

Cast

Credited cast:
Tomas Milian	...	Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Isabella Rossellini	...	Urania
Paul Freeman	...	Agustín Cabral
Juan Diego Botto	...	Amadito García Guerrero
Stephanie Leonidas	...	Uranita
Shawn Elliott	...	Johnny Abbes
Murphy Guyer	...	Turk
David Zayas	...	Antonio de la Maza
Steven Bauer	...	Juan José Viñas
Carlos Miranda	...	Antonio Imbert Barrera
Eileen Atkins	...	Aunt Adelina
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miguel Acta	...	Feast Guest
Sonia Alfonso
José Manuel Alvarez	...	Feast Guest
Melina Alvarez	...	Woman at church

Storyline

Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this is the story of Urania Cabral, a beautiful, kind, intelligent and independent Manhattan lawyer whom, after 30 years returns to República Dominicana to face her ghosts... and the horrifying circumstances that altered her life forever when she was a teenager and Rafael Leónidas Trujillo a.k.a El Chivo (The Goat) was the iron-handed ruler of this island paradise... after Urania faces her past, nothing in her present or future will ever be the same again.

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Plot Keywords:

dictator | murder | father | based on novel

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Dominican Republic Spain UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 March 2006 (Spain)

Also Known As:

The Feast of the Goat

Filming Locations:

La Romana, Dominican Republic

Box Office

Budget:

€8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

DRAX audio, Future Film Group, Future Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

All the exteriors were filmed in Santo Domingo, but the studio filming was done in Spain.

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Goofs

The National Police (Policia Nacional) of Dominican Republic was the color green in Trujillo's Era, however, on the film it appears yellow. The Nacional Police was not yellow until 2004-2005.

User Reviews

Good but not Excellent

As a Dominican, I can say the movie cannot be considered as the movie about the Trujillo government, but about the story of how some things were in those years, specially how difficult was for some women specially that were attracted by Trujillo, and how Urania's life changed after going to help his father reputation while going to the supposed "party" with Trujillo, that became into the Goat's party as the movie is named. I haven't read the book yet, but I like the movie and I recommend it movie. For people interested in knowing about Trujillo's era, also you can see "In the times of the butterflies", it is also more realistic about Trujillo's times.