The pain and anger of El Salvador (1981)

A soldier, a man lying on the sidewalk; a face, tied hands.

A soldier with a prisoner.

A map of El Salvador.

Landscapes of El Salvador.

A city.

A coffee tree with fruits.

Soldiers near bales of cotton.

A car with cotton passes by.

A high-rise building.

City streets with traffic. N. Rockefeller descends the steps of an airplane.

A protest rally of the Salvadoran people; a speaker speaks.

Soldiers watch from the roof.

Soldiers with machine guns on a city street.

Soldiers drive past the houses of the poor.

Soldiers search a car, a bus.

People pass by with their hands raised.

Soldiers search men; enter a house, conduct a search; a woman with children, soldiers interrogate her husband.

Soldiers drive people away from a village.

Leaving soldiers, killed Salvadorans.

A meeting of the junta that seized power in El Salvador.

Colonel Mahano speaking.

Correspondents.

The next head of the junta, Napoleon Duarte; N. Duarte speaking.

Peasants working in the fields.

The homes of the poor; a child is crying; children are standing near the houses.

Patriots are hanging anti-government posters on the wall of a house; a man is distributing leaflets calling for action.

A protest demonstration on the street of El Salvador; demonstrators are passing by with posters.

Soldiers are taking aim; soldiers are running; killed on the street of the city; a dead boy.

The burning printing house of the Nezavisimaya newspaper; a destroyed machine; a broken sign of the printing house.

The destroyed printing house.

A blown up radio station.

Soldiers are leading an arrested reporter.

The reporter is exposing the film.

Dead journalists.

Soldiers of the National Guard and police are standing.

Soldiers are driving by in an armored car and in a car.

Right-wing demonstrators with batons are passing by.

Dead Salvadorans.

A soldier is turning over a dead man.

People standing, a dead Salvadoran.

The exterior of the cathedral.

A woman's face, listening to a prayer.

Archbishop of San Salvador Oscar Arnulfo Romero leads a prayer calling on soldiers not to obey the junta's orders.

Believers in the church.

The bullets that killed O. Romero.

Correspondents.

The coffin with O. Romero's body.

Soldiers with machine guns stand.

Funeral of O. Romero; square filled with people; coffin with body of O. Romero is carried out of the cathedral; clergy pass by, people with slogans.

Panic in the square during the funeral; soldiers shoot at people, people run away, people climb over the fence, crawl on the ground; wounded are dragged.

A helicopter flies by.

Demonstrators pass along the street of the city, protesting against Washington's interference in the affairs of El Salvador.

Guardsmen with machine guns in cover.

Clash between guardsmen and people.

A dead girl lies, a wounded man is carried; captured Salvadoran patriots lie; captured patriots are led; prisoners are on the bottom of a truck.

A truck with prisoners passes by.

At a rally in San Salvador, students with raised hands and clenched fists swear to continue the fight for freedom; a participant of the rally speaks.

Participants of the rally set fire to the American flag as a sign of protest; the flag burns.

US Secretary of State Haig speaking (on increasing military aid to the junta).

A meeting room.

A dead child lies.

A woman cries.

A woman approaches the child's corpse and cries.

A sign on a clinic.

A dead man lies on a bed.

A city street, parked cars, a dead driver sitting in one of them.

People are watching, women are crying.

A dead man lies; a woman is crying; a candle is burning.

A meeting room of the patriotic forces of El Salvador.

A portrait of the leader of the first uprising of the Salvadoran people, the founder of the CP of El Salvador, A. Farabundo Martí.

Leaders of the patriotic forces of El Salvador.

The hall applauds.

The leaders in the presidium sign the document.

Leaflets are thrown in the hall.

National Guard soldiers are sneaking down the street.

Patriots are shooting.

Guard soldiers are running.

The brutally murdered leaders who signed the "Manifesto of Unity" lie.

An inscription in Spanish: "Your clenched fist is a symbol of victory.

We will achieve it." Patriots stand with clenched fists, swearing revenge on the murderers.

Demonstration of solidarity with the patriots of El Salvador in Venezuela.

Monument, demonstration of solidarity with El Salvador in Mexico, demonstrators with posters against US interference in the internal affairs of El Salvador.

Port in Italy.

Covered military equipment that Italian dockers refuse to load onto ships heading to the shores of El Salvador.

State Department building in Washington.

Sign on the department building.

Washington residents at the department building with posters demanding an end to aid to the bloody junta.

Salvadoran village, patriots stand.

Women walk through the village; patriots walk with rifles, a woman with a child stands.

Patriots walk through a liberated village.