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Return to El Salvador (2010)

Return to El Salvador poster
Directed by
Jamie Moffett
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows people who survived the Salvadoran Civil War and later fled. It shows their efforts to return and rebuild their lives amid lingering violence and instability.

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What happens

Return to El Salvador is a 2010 documentary film directed by Philadelphia filmmaker Jamie Moffett and narrated by Martin Sheen. It chronicles the rebuilding of El Salvador in the years after the Salvadoran Civil War, and explores the impact a lasting legacy of violence and unrest has had on those who survived, fled, and are now seeking to return. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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