Documentary

52 minutes
English / Spanish
1999

Pablo Alejandro , Yves Billon

Les Films du Village , Odysée , Citizen TV , Zarafa Films

A RARE VIEW OF THE COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA FROM INSIDE

The film is about a man who has had an exceptional destinity : in Colombia from the furthermost bounds of the Andes of Amazonia, Manuel Marulanda Velez is the most wanted man over the whole South American continent. The Supreme Leader of the FARC the most powerful Communist guerrilla warfare in the world is also the oldest guerilla in the world. His biography can’t be separated from the last fifty years of Colombian history : a gory History which will remain engraved on people mind’s. Archive films and today’s pictures are mixed with a commentary which aims at telling us the contemporary History of Colombia through the point of view of one of its main protagonist : an illegal armed rebel fighting from the height of its mountains. A human and historical story which reflects and expresses the life of all the population.