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According to the book 'Picture This!: A Guide to over 300 Environmentally, Socially, and Politically Relevant Films and Videos' (1992) by Sky Hiatt, "Romero (1989) was independently produced by Paulist Pictures, the Catholic media branch of the Paulist order. Father Ellwood E. Kieser [Reverend Ellwood Kieser] turned to the order and to various Catholic bishops to raise money for the film when Hollywood studios and all three American television networks turned him down".
General Carlos Humberto Romero, who was the militant dictator of El Salvador between the years 1977 to 1979, and played in the film by Harold Cannon, was unrelated to Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero (Raul Julia), though the two shared the same last name.
Alfonso Cuarón, the Academy Award winning Best Director for the film Gravity (2013), worked as an assistant director on this picture.
According to website Wikipedia, the picture ". . . was produced by Paulist Productions (a film company run by the Paulist Fathers, a Roman Catholic society of priests). Timed for release ten years after [Archbishop] Romero's death [on 24th March 1980], it was the first Hollywood feature film ever to be financed by the order".
First theatrical feature film of production house Paulist Pictures.
"Archbishop Oscar Romero: I'd like to make an appeal in a special way to the men in the army. Brothers, each one of you is one of us. We are the same People. The farmers and peasants that you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear the words of a man telling you to kill, think instead in the words of God, "Thou shalt not kill!" No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the Law of God. In His name and in the name of our tormented people who have suffered so much, and whose laments cry out to heaven: I implore you! I beg you! I *order* you! [shouts] Archbishop Oscar Romero: Stop the repressions!"
