La fiesta del Chivo (2005)

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:

Luis Llosa (screenplay), Augusto Cabada (screenplay)

Stars:

Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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
Clare Cathcart	...	Lucinda
Gary Piquer	...	Galindez
Jordan Lage	...	Gral. Pupo Román
Richard Bekins	...	Manuel Alfonso

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:

assassination | dictator | assassination plot | vaginal injury | drive by shooting | 

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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:

Centro de los Héroes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Box Office

Budget:

€8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

DRAX audio,Future Film Group,Future Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This marks as Zachary Sklars first screenplay in fourteen years. His previous effort was JFK (1991), which also had Tomas Milian as part of the cast.

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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

Important story, so so execution

I am a Dominican, and it's always good to see movies that are about facts from my country. I was waiting for this movie, everybody knows the book it's already a classic, Trujillo's era it's one of the bloodiest of all the dictators-ships that Latin America has suffer. Well, this movie is based on the book of the same name, but it's very difficult to top the book's magic in a two hours film. It's not a bad movie, but it's not what should have been. Nice cinematography in some scenes but the director fails in portray to us the strongest side of the characters. I give the movie a 6 out of 10, cause anyways, it's a good approach to the book, and the people that doesn't know about this story, i recommend this movie as the best out there about Trujillo and his "nasty" regime.