Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

1974 · 100 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Thriller

1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.

Directed by Mauricio Walerstein · Written by José Ignacio Cabrujas

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Claudio Brook Colonel Robert Ernest Whitney
Eva Mondolfi
Miguelangel Landa Juan Carlos
Orlando Urdaneta Miguel Ángel Rivas
Pedro Laya
José Ignacio Cabrujas
Rafael Briceño
Asdrúbal Meléndez
Julio Mota
Lucio Bueno
Perla Vonasek
Oscar Mendoza

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