ID #:
118
Film Type:
feature length film
Color or BW:
Color and B&W
Description:
A powerful account of the tenure of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador, and his assassination in 1979. The movie develops the conflicts surrounded by debate in the Catholic Church of its proper social role in the midst of emerging civil war while graphically portraying the consequences.
Keywords:
20th century, assassination, Catholic Church, Civil War, El Salvador, liberation theology, Oscar Romero