Movie » Latin American Cinema

Studio: Laguna Productions Inc Release Date: 07/31/2007 Rating: Nr

Following the same pattern as the series of Cantinflas films this routine Mexican comedy stars the country's other top-billed comic Tin-Tan. He falls a little short of convincing in his take-off on a down-and-out storyteller who struggles to eke out a living on a daily basis. As in other Mexican films of this type the comedy arises from the fixes the storyteller gets into as he goes about his business some of the situations are as threatening to his well-being as they are funny yet once again this time-worn formula runs a little thin here. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: LATIN/COMEDY UPC: 735978417009 Manufacturer No: LF1700

Release Date: 2007-07-03, Rating: Unrated

Spanish: Una historia divertida sobe las travesuras del amor. Dos primas hermanas hermosas, jóvenes, aguerridas y libres descubrirán a pesar de sus perjuicios que el príncipe azul si existe, solo que no siempre viene en corcel blanco ni en descapotable de marca. El hombre de sus sueños esta más cerca de lo que piensan solo que en el empaque equivocado

English: A story about love in which two cousins seek their happily ever after ending. Maria Carlota and Maria Corina are different in their lifestyles, one loves the country while the latter is a cosmopolitan city girl. However they have one common idea: men are no use. One day Maria Carlota meets Ricardo, a man with a past who will unknowingly change her life. Maria Corina, who had settled in a relationship, will meet Luis Carlos and have her most hidden feelings aroused. Both girls will live their own fairy tale and find passion where they least expect it.

Studio: Laguna Productions Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007

Studio: Laguna Productions Inc Release Date: 09/04/2007

When Australian filmmaker David Bradbury arrived in Nicaragua in 1983 the 'secret war' of the CIA backed Contras was in full swing. The CIA's aim? To overthrow the leftist Sandinista government. Bradbury spent six months in Nicaragua and captured on film the human face of a popular but troubled revolution under attack.

In 1978 the revolutionary Sandinista movement came to government after 43 years of organised resistance and the death of 50,000 Nicaraguans. For years Nicaraguans had suffered under the brutal dictatorship of General Somoza. NO PASARAN describes this period of Nicaraguan history simply, and explains the extraordinary events which led to the formation and eventual coming to power of the Sandinistas.

Through the central and charismatic figure of Sandinista leader Tomas Borge, Bradbury examines the past, present and future of this small Central American nation whose methods of survival and commitment to making a revolution for the poor challenged the full US military might. Through their embrace of liberation theology, the Sandinistas who included priests in their collective leadership, dared to stand up to the power of the Catholic Church hierarchy.

No-one can forget the moment in NO PASARAN when Pope John Paul II is shouted down by a huge crowd of Catholic worshippers when he refused to give a prayer for the mothers of 17 Sandinista student soldiers ambushed and killed by the Contra while in their sleeping bags days before his visit.

Bradbury visits the young soldiers in the mountains protecting the country from invasion and lets them speak of their commitment to teach old people and peasants how to read and write and get a simple roof over their heads.

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LA BATALLA DE LOS PASTELES (DVD MOVIE)

Studio: Laguna Productions Inc Release Date: 07/05/2007

Studio: Laguna Productions Inc Release Date: 07/31/2007