The Shining Trench of President Gonzalo
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jim Finn
Iliana Inguazo
Denise Del Rio
Isabela Montes
Amanda Louis
Rebeca Mayorga
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When members of the Peruvian Maoist revolutionary-terrorist group the Shining Path were captured and imprisoned, the authorities isolated them in their own cellblocks. The guerrillas thought of government prisons as just another front in the People's War calling them "shining trenches of combat." The prisoners organized propaganda, literature, and military classes as well as marches, criticism sessions and dances. The Shining Path was known to recruit heavily among highland Indians and women. Structured roughly along the pace and schedule of a Catholic mass, the film is filled with the esoteric rituals and dogmatic political theology of their leader, the former philosophy professor Chairman Gonzalo.
Director
Jim Finn
Cast
Iliana Inguazo
Denise Del Rio
Isabela Montes
Amanda Louis
Rebeca Mayorga
Gaby Mayorga
Magali Arreola
Sophina James
Maria Pasillas
Isela Cruz
Yazmin Chavez
Judith Martinez
Crew
Jim Becker
Joe Bristol
Colleen Burke
Dana Carter
Dean Dematteis
Jim Finn
Jim Finn
Jim Finn
Jim Finn
Ross Goldstein
Cecilia Rubalcava
Mike Slattery
Simon Welter
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States June 26, 2007
Released in United States Summer June 26, 2007
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Nonfiction Features of 2007) September 27-October 12, 2007.
DV
color
dialogue Spanish, Incan and Dine
Released in United States June 26, 2007 (New York City)
Released in United States Summer June 26, 2007
