A Documentary Portrait Of Love And Survival in El Salvador’s Civil War

AS SEEN ON PBS

MARIAS STORY MVD4972DMaria’s Story broke ground as one of the first documentaries to use small format video. Traveling with only backpacks and solar powered batteries and living on the run with the guerrillas for two months, the filmmakers were able to capture otherwise unattainable footage. The resulting intimate portrait of Maria and her compatriots reveals a universal tale of love and survival in times of war.” – POV


It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives
. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country.

With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria’s daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led the FMLN into the historic peace pact of 1992.

Skirting bullets and mortar attacks, recounting a childhood of poverty and abuse by government troops, suffering the tragic loss of her daughter to enemy fire, and spending precious moments with her husband and surviving daughters, Maria brings viewers to the heart of the fight for a more just society. Included is an update of Maria Serrano and her family from twenty years after the end of the civil war.

“As the camera jiggles and the bullets fly one comes as close to combat as possible in a movie theater” – SF Examiner

60 minutes on 1 disc

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