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The devil's dream

Excerpts from the folk-dance drama, "The Legion of the 24 Devils," are interpersed with commentary by Guatemalans to focus on problems in Guatemala, such as an oppressed native population, child labour, lack of freedom of expression and the right to organize, lack of education and healthcare, and extrajudicial killings.

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  • ""Guatemala is a society split between native and "latino", rich and poor, civil and military....Combining lyricism, realism and irony. [The video]...explores the soul of this paradoxical country. We discover not only the beauty of the landscape, the people and their creative imagination, but also the wretched conditions of life, the spectre of violence, and a pervasive sense of the absurd." - container."
  • "Excerpts from the folk-dance drama, "The Legion of the 24 Devils," are interpersed with commentary by Guatemalans to focus on problems in Guatemala, such as an oppressed native population, child labour, lack of freedom of expression and the right to organize, lack of education and healthcare, and extrajudicial killings."@en
  • "Dans ce documentaire, une voix domine: celle si longtemps étouffée de la majorité autochtone du Guatemala. Cet essai jette un regard sur la société postcoloniale et dépeint un monde rempli d'absurdités. Ainsi, on y dévoile l'existence d'un Plan Diabolique pour entretenir le sous-développement. Les militaires menacent et paradent tandis que les politiciens et les généraux se disputent la présidence. Et, les jours de carnaval, on va s'étourdir dans la danse et noyer dans l'alcool les maléfices et la mort."
  • ""Guatemala is a society split between native and "latino", rich and poor, civil and military....Combining lyricism, realism and irony, (the video)...explores the soul of this paradoxical country. We discover not only the beauty of the landscape, the people and their creative imagination, but also the wretched conditions of life, the spectre of violence, and a pervasive sense of the absurd."(c.f. container)"
  • "Using interviews, illustrative documentary footage and excerpts from "The legion of 26 Devils" folk dance-drama, explores the social, political and economic divisions within Guatemalan society. Topics include: rural poverty, exploitation of the landless peasantry, military and governmental abuse of power, union and political activism, role of the church."
  • "Social and political conditions in Guatemala are viewed through the eyes of the country's people in these interviews and descriptions."
  • "Uses the folk ritual "The Dance of the 24 Devils" to comment on the many problems confronting Guatemals's poor: an oppressed native population, use the child labour, censorship of the press, and inadequate health care and educational opportunities."
  • "Uses the folk ritual "The Dance of the 24 Devils" to comment on the many problems confronting Guatemala's poor: an oppressed native population, use of child labour, censorship of the press, and inadequate health care and educational opportunities."@en
  • "Uses the folk ritual "The Dance of the 24 Devils" to comment on the many problems confronting Guatemala's poor: an oppressed native population, use of child labour, censorship of the press, and inadequate health care and educational opportunities."
  • "Documents the repression of Guatemalan Indians by the government."@en

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  • "Ethnographic"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Music"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Documentary"

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  • "The devil's dream"@en
  • "The devil's dream"
  • "The Devil's dream a film"
  • "The Devil's dream"@en
  • "The Devil's dream"
  • "The devil's dream a film"@en
  • "Devil's dream"
  • "The devil's dream a film about Guatemala"

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