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Husband Wife Relationship | 1970s
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IMDbBest Foreign Actress Mejor Actriz Extranjera | 1984 | Joanna
Best Foreign Producer Migliore Produttore Straniero | 1984 | Jonathan T.
Best Music Original Score | 1984 | Jerry
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 1984 | Gene
Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1984 | Jerry
Best Editing | 1985 | Mark
Best Foreign Screenplay Migliore Sceneggiatura Straniera | 1984 | Ron
Best Actress | 1984 | Joanna
Best Screenplay | 1984 | Ron
Best Cinematography | 1984 | John
Best Foreign Film | 1984
This movie was made and released about four years after the events of the Nicaraguan revolution depicted in the film occurred in 1979. American reporter Bill Stewart was killed by Nicaraguan soldiers at that time.
Watching this movie inspired Reuters photo journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Yannis Behrakis to pursue a career in photo journalism.
This film was part of a cycle of pictures made during the 1980s that featured journalists covering war. The movies include Salvador (1986), Under Fire (1983), Circle of Deceit (1981), Witness in the War Zone (1987), Cry Freedom (1987), The Killing Fields (1984) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).
Jerry Goldsmith's entire end title music for this film is used to score a sequence in Django Unchained (2012).
Drumming great Vince Colaiuta makes a cameo as the drummer in the night club.
"Marcel Jazy: I like you people, but you are sentimental shits! You fall in love with the poets; the poets fall in love with the Marxists; the Marxists fall in love with themselves. The country falls in love with the rhetoric, and in the end we are stuck with tyrants."
"Woman in refugee camp: [looking at picture of dead Alex Grazier on TV] Did you know the man who was killed? Claire: [she nods 'yes'] Woman in refugee camp: Fifty thousand Nicaraguans have died and now a Yankee. Perhaps now America will be outraged at what has happened here. Claire: Perhaps they will. Woman in refugee camp: Maybe we should have killed an American journalist fifty years ago."