Sandino_(film) References

Sandino
Sandino
	film poster
Directed by	Miguel Littín
Starring	Joaquim de Almeida ; Kris Kristofferson
Production; companies	Televisión Española; Umamzor
Running time	2h 15min
Language	Spanish

Sandino is a 1990 Spanish-Nicaraguan biographical film about Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino, directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín and produced by Spanish Televisión Española and Nicaraguan state producer Umamzor. It was released in cinemas as a two hours long film first and it was broadcast in television as a three 55-minutes episodes miniseries later.^[1]

Plot

The film depicts the life of Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934), the leader of the Nicaraguan resistance against the US occupation army between 1927 and 1933, as well as the National Guard that was organized against him after the Marines' defeat.

The movie features several real-life characters, including Calvin Coolidge (President of the United States), Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, the country's President Juan Bautista Sacasa, Colonel Logan Feland and Captain Gilbert D. Hatfield of the Navy, as well as Blanca Aráuz Pineda, Sandino's wife and a telegraph operator from the town of San Rafael del Norte, Jinotega. Young workers who fought alongside Sandino, such as generals Francisco Estrada, José Gregorio Colindres, and Pedro Altamirano Pedrón, as well as Teresa Villatoro, Sandino's mountain wife, also make appearances.