DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
TROPIC OF BLOOD [Trópico de sangre]

By the late 1950s Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's reign of terror over the Dominican Republic had lasted nearly thirty years. Yet the Mirabal sisters, led by feisty, passionate Minerva (Michelle Rodriguez, AVATAR, LOST), would come to represent the greatest threat to his regime. Daring to stand up against him, they soon became folk heroes to the oppressed Dominican people. Their cold-blooded murder at the hands of Trujillo's thugs would prove to be the fearsome dictator's ultimate undoing. (Courtesy of NY Latino Film Festival)

DIR/SCR Juan Delancer; PROD Joan Giacinti. Dominican Republic, 2010, color, 115 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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