71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Fiebre

Juan Santana , Alfredo J. Anzola , Fernando Toro
Venezuela
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Based on the novel by Miguel Otero Silva, Fever is about the student rebellion in 1928 against Juan Vicente Gómez, one of the cruelest dictators in Venezuela's history. On the failure of that movement, Vidal enlists in the guerrilla groups of the country's interior. With them he realises that the problem is not Gómez as an individual, but a whole feudal system that keeps the country in a state of misery and backwardness. On dying in a concentration camp, Vidal leaves his political testament: "I know that up to the moment we haven't done anything... But our lives have not passed uselessly, for after us, other hands will reap the harvest that our hands have sown". 

Director
Juan Santana (Venezuela), Alfredo J. Anzola (Venezuela), Fernando Toro (Venezuela)
Screenplay
Salvador Garmendia
Plot
Miguel Otero Silva
Photography
Andrés Agustí
Edition
Olegario Barrera, Juan Santana
Music
Freddy Reina
Cast
María Adelina Vera, Lucio Bueno, Chelo Rodríguez, Asdrúbal Meléndez, Yolanda Celis, Julio Mota, Freddy Galavis, Olga Marín Irausqui
Sound
Mario Nazoa, Alfredo Anzola
Format
16 mm
Running Time
86 m.
Country
Venezuela
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