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The plot centers on the last three years of Archbishop Romero’s life, where the assassination of the protagonist brings a dramatic end to a story steeped in pain, death and injustice. However, this is not only a film about tragedy and martyrdom, but also about courage, faith and transformation.
The assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, in 1980, provoked at the time the usual international reaction of shock and protest, which is to say, it was ignored by most people and quickly forgotten by many of the rest.
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There was another element that made the show such a lasting success: Programming in “the public interest” was required of every station by the F.C.C. Then with the Reagan administration came the argument that marketplace competition alone could fulfill the needs of the public. “Bud and I worked with four or five other people to make sure the F.C.C....
Returning to the States, Mr. Young set to writing. He saw Romero as akin to Thomas More. “Romero was faced with a circumstance he didn’t want—he didn’t look for it, he didn’t like it. But the discovery was that he had to do what he did, and in some ways that was liberating.” While getting the story made would involve many challenges, the most persi...
While some of the cast were local, others came from the States. Mr. Plana, a Cuban-born, Jesuit-educated actor from Los Angeles, had recently completed Oliver Stone’s “Salvador,” playing a version of D’Aubuisson. He was so eager to join “Romero” as the priest who attacks the archbishop’s inaction that he cold-called Kieser. “I said, ‘I gotta get in...
With a final cut in hand that was spare, meditative and raw, Kieser and Father Geaney set out to market “Romero.” There was a steep learning curve. Father Geaney remembers Juliá reading Kieser the riot act over comments he made in interviews that he had raised money from people in the pews. “Bud was trying to help people in the church realize the i...
Romero is a 1989 biographical film depicting the story of Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero, who organized peaceful protests against the violent military regime, eventually at the cost of his own life.
The first feature film from the Paulist Fathers’ moviemaking division, John Duigan’s Romero tells the true story of Latin America’s best-known and most revered modern martyr, Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Goldamez, a man whom John Paul II described as a ”zealous pastor who gave his life for his flock,” and at whose tomb in San Salvador the ...
A Christian martyr for the gospel of social justice, and a man of deep spirituality and great ethical stature, Óscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador during years of brutal government and paramilitary repression, is a towering figure in the recent history of El Salvador and Latin America.
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Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. This excellent drama depicts the last three years in the life of the Salvadoran bishop who became archbishop in 1977 and was assassinated on March 24, 1980, in San Salvador's Divine Providence Hospital Chapel.
