DMovie

  • Home
  • Movies
  • Tv Shows
Background
Maria's Story

A documentary portrait of love and survival in El Salvador's civil war.

Maria's Story

1991-01-18
  • Documentary
53 minutes

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 front lines 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.

Monona WaliDirector
Pamela CohenDirector

Top Billed Cast

María Serrano

Self

Alma Martinez

Alma Martinez

María Serrano (voice)

Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos

José Serrano (voice)

Similar

A list of similar movies.

More
Tupamaro: Urban Guerrillas
Tupamaro: Urban Guerrillas2019
The Provider
The Provider2015
Shameless: The Art  of Disability
Shameless: The Art of Disability2006
Grab and Run
Grab and Run2017
Through the Night
Through the Night2021
CircleSpeak
CircleSpeak2005
Das Schreiben und das Schweigen - Die Schriftstellerin Friederike Mayröcker
Das Schreiben und das Schweigen - Die Schriftstellerin Friederike Mayröcker2008
Bulletproof Salesman
Bulletproof Salesman2008
Talhotblond
Talhotblond2009
Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will1935
Children of Beslan
Children of Beslan2005
Miró, The Painter
Miró, The Painter1979
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq2007
Marjoe
Marjoe1972
Debut
Debut2017
Homicide Hunter: The Man with No Face
Homicide Hunter: The Man with No Face2023
One Million Dubliners
One Million Dubliners2014
Refuge(e)
Refuge(e)2019
Wrenched
Wrenched2014
Women Who Made the Movies
Women Who Made the Movies1990