Scene from the film The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo
Scene from the film The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo
Scene from the film The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo

The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo

Direction
Year 
2007
Country
  • United States
Duration
60min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is a recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement, from their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that they were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were just another front in the People’s War: “shining trenches of combat”. This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

Details

  • Original title
    La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Jim Finn
  • DOP
    Dean DeMatteis
  • Music
    Jim Becker, Colleen Burke
  • Duration
    60 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2007
  • Country
    • United States
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Festivals
    • Chicago Underground Film Festival 2007
    • Gijon Film Festival, 2008

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