| The coffee brigade
Director : Georges Drion
Sound : Nick Godwin
Editing : Georges Drion
Year : 1988
Length : 50 min
In English and French version
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The film follows the daily life of a group of British
volunteers who travelled to the mountain regions of Nicaragua
to help with the coffee harvest while local workers were
otherwise engaged in fighting the Contras.
Although the film mentions agrarian reform, military agression
by the Contras and social achievements in Nicaragua, it
concerns itself mainly with the experiences of the British
volunteers including, at times, some very comical situations.
« Interesting, lucid and well made, the film provides
a wry contrast between the sometimes petty, comic and
mundane experiences of the volunteers (squabbling over
stolen biscuits for example) and the seriousness of the
political situation around them » -Clyde Jeavons,
London Film Festival.
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