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Men with guns

A powerful political allegory set in an unnamed Latin American country, Men With Guns concerns Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi), an elderly physician long involved with a group that trains young people to provide health care for the poverty-stricken citizens of the outlying hill country, where small agricultural communities struggle to survive under primitive living conditions. The doctor has heard rumors that many of his former students are lost and feared dead, so he goes into the hills to investigate. The deeper he digs into the jungle, the more Fuentes finds that the people are menaced by "men with guns'" military forces who use torture and execution to intimidate the people, and guerillas from opposition groups whose agenda is only marginally more benign. Accumulating several travelling companions a defrocked priest, a deserter from the Army, a boy who survives by stealing, and a woman who has turned mute since she was raped Fuentes finds that his journey becomes more revealing but also more perilous the deeper he ventures into the hills. American writer and director John Sayles filmed most of Men With Guns in Spanish (an language he speaks fluently), as well as several indigenous dialects; he claims to have based most of the film's incidents on actual events that have occurred in a number of different Third World nations. Mandy Patinkin has a brief role as an American tourist Fuentes encounters in his travels.

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  • "Homens armados"
  • "Hombres armados"

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  • "Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy, 7 medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages in Mexico. But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that men with guns got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities he had long ignored. Now, his is an almost desperate quest, but for a mythical village deep in the rainforest, one last refuge of hope called Cerca del Cielo."
  • "A powerful political allegory set in an unnamed Latin American country, Men With Guns concerns Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi), an elderly physician long involved with a group that trains young people to provide health care for the poverty-stricken citizens of the outlying hill country, where small agricultural communities struggle to survive under primitive living conditions. The doctor has heard rumors that many of his former students are lost and feared dead, so he goes into the hills to investigate. The deeper he digs into the jungle, the more Fuentes finds that the people are menaced by "men with guns'" military forces who use torture and execution to intimidate the people, and guerillas from opposition groups whose agenda is only marginally more benign. Accumulating several travelling companions a defrocked priest, a deserter from the Army, a boy who survives by stealing, and a woman who has turned mute since she was raped Fuentes finds that his journey becomes more revealing but also more perilous the deeper he ventures into the hills. American writer and director John Sayles filmed most of Men With Guns in Spanish (an language he speaks fluently), as well as several indigenous dialects; he claims to have based most of the film's incidents on actual events that have occurred in a number of different Third World nations. Mandy Patinkin has a brief role as an American tourist Fuentes encounters in his travels."@en
  • ""Humberto Fuentes is a wealthy physician in an unnamed Central American country whose wife has just died. His proudest accomplishment was the training of seven young physicians to work with Indians in remote, impoverished villages in the mountains. He decides to visit his former students, but discovers that men with guns have reached them first"--Internet movie database summary, December 6, 2002."
  • "De Latijns-Amerikaanse dokter Humberto Fuentes die een luxueus leven leidt in de stad, komt tot inkeer als blijkt dat zijn studenten in de indianendorpen worden vermoord door het regeringsleger."
  • "An elderly physician that trains young people to provide health care to the poor people of an agricultural country finds out that many of his former students are being killed. He goes there to find out why these men with guns are killing anyone they want."
  • "Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy--seven medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages. But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that "men with guns" got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities he had long ignored."

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  • "Features"
  • "Films for the hearing impaired"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Motion pictures, Spanish"
  • "Feature films"
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  • "Personal/independent films and video"
  • "Foreign films"
  • "Videocassettes"

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  • "Men with guns = Los hombres armados"
  • "Men with guns (Film)"
  • "Men with guns Los hombres armados = Homens armados"
  • "Men With Guns = Los hombres armados"
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  • "Men with guns"

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