
Der Traum des Sandino
1981, German. Directed by Rudi Palla & Margareta Heinrich.
19 months after the fall of the dictator Somoza, the Austrian film team travels across Nicaragua for seven weeks (from August 4th to September 20th, 1980) and gathers information, mostly from farmers, workers, market women and soldiers. We are shown life in the Fincas, the agricultural co-operatives, in a banana plantation of Standard Fruit, a private corporation, in the "Carlos Roberto Huembes Hospital" in La Esperanza which is run by Austrians. A report on Nicaragua of 1980 which discusses the dream of the murdered freedom fighter of Nicaragua, General C.A. Sandino and whether it has been realized and answers this question affirmativeley. In spite of the present and threatening difficulties, the film is optimistic.
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 27 March 1981
- Country
- Nicaragua, Austria
- Written by
- Manfred Kaufmann, Rudi Palla, Margareta Heinrich
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Der Traum des Sandino runs 117 minutes (1h 57m).
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Der Traum des Sandino isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 27 March 1981. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Der Traum des Sandino?
Der Traum des Sandino (1981) was directed by Rudi Palla and Margareta Heinrich and stars Johanna Tomek, Linde Prelog, Günter Peiritsch.