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Roses in December

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Original title: Roses in December
Year: 1982
Running time: 58 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ana Carrigan, Bernard Stone
Screenwriter: Ana Carrigan
Cast: Documentary
Genre: Documentary | El Salvador Civil War. Half-length Film
Synopsis: The film begins with the exhumation of four American women tortured, raped, and murdered by the right-wing government of El Salvador on December 2, 1980. The women -- Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline; Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Maryknoll mission sisters; and Jean Donovan, a young laywoman from Cleveland -- were providing food, shelter, medical care and burial to the poor. They were targeted for assassination by a death squad within the U.S.-supported Salvadoran military as part of a policy of suppressing the poor and "liberation theology." The award-winning documentary focuses primarily on the life of Jean Donovan through archival news footage, interviews, home movies, and diary readings. "Roses in December" is a painful, absorbing look at the consequences of the Reagan Administration's foreign policy and U.S. intervention in Central America.

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Roses in December

1982

Ana Carrigan, Bernard Stone