Men with Guns (1997)

Directed by

John Sayles

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor travels into the countryside to find his former students. He learns about the violence and political turmoil that has shaped his country.

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What happens

Men with Guns (Spanish: Hombres armados) is a 1997 American political drama film edited, written and directed by John Sayles, inspired by the 1992 novel The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman. It stars Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Damián Alcázar and Mandy Patinkin. The executive producers were Lou Gonda and Jody Patton. Set in an unnamed Latin American country, it is the story of one man's discovery of what actually happened in the political history of his nation as well as his students. It was filmed in Mexico and most of the crew were Mexican. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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