Everything will be better (1990)

Movie №9846, 5 parts, Duration: 0:46:42
Studio CSDF (RCSDF)

Annotation:

About the general elections in Nicaragua.

Annotation:

The film is dedicated to the socio-political life and state structure of Nicaragua. The film includes footage of the election campaigns of D. Ortega and V. Chamorro. Speeches by D. Ortega and V. Chamorro (synchronously) at rallies and meetings. Footage from the newsreel: 1979. Rally in the square of Managua on July 19, 1979. Fighters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. Demonstration. D. Ortega speaking. Nicaraguans rejoicing. Liberation of the "contras" from Tipitala prison. The city of Managua. Traffic and pedestrians. Sale of vegetables and fruits at the market. Nicaraguan girls dancing. Interview with T. Borge (synchronously in Spanish). Interview with K. Chamorro (synchronously in Spanish). Building of the Communist Party of Nicaragua. Interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party E. Altomirano (simultaneously in Spanish). Sugar mill named after the victory of the Revolution. Sugar cane plantations. Poor neighborhoods of Managua. Photos of the Chamorro family. Editorial office of the newspaper owned by the Chamorro family.

Reel №1

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The end of the Sandinista Front election campaign: a mass rally at Carlos Square in Managua.

People are waving flags, hats, chanting.

A girl is watching.

On the open stage in the square, a girl, and then a young couple are dancing the lambada.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and other state leaders pass by.

A poster with the inscription in Spanish "We will win and everything will be better!" D. Ortega comes out onto the stage with a flag.

Sandinista flags are fluttering. D. Ortega speaks in the square (from the rostrum) to the people.

A commuter train is approaching the platform.

People are boarding the carriages, in the carriage.

A woman with a child, a boy, an Indian girl.

People on the platform.

A carriage with people passes along the street.

A destroyed temple.

Newsreel from 1979: A soldier is swinging a bell, the bell is swinging.

July 19, 1979: people in the square after the victory of the revolution and the overthrow of the dictator Somoza.

People lift a man with a machine gun, hug.

Children dance.

An old woman waves.

People drive by in a car; stand on the balcony of a destroyed house, walk along the street with posters.

The leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, coordinator of the Governing Council of the Government of Nicaragua D. Ortega speaks.

A helicopter takes off, drops leaflets.

Children on the lawn, waving flags.

People at a rally. D. Ortega and other members of the national leadership walk past a mine.

The Minister of Labor of the first government of the National Renaissance, now Vice President of Nicaragua Vergilio Godoy speaks about the mistakes of the first government.

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Former member of the National Leadership of the Sandinista Front, organizer of the Revolutionary Unity Movement party Moises Hassan, sitting in a garden, speaks about the wrong policy of the Sandinista Front leadership.

Hands of a person applauding.

People applaud, D. Ortega waves his hand.

Tomas Borge, member of the National Leadership, one of the founders of the Sandinista Front, former Minister of the Interior.

The people in the square rejoice and wave flags. T. Borge, D. Ortega and others applaud. b/w T. Borge speaks.

Soldiers stand.

Children with guns pass by.

Armed patrol on the street.

People with flags and a poster pass by.

Soldiers drive a car through the city.

A boy soldier eats ice cream on the street.

Children walk down the street.

A line of soldiers passes by.

The ceremony of the release of the "contras" from the prison in the city of Tapitapa: the "contras" stand on the prison parade ground.

The guests who came to the ceremony applaud.

Women and other relatives of former prisoners are watching.

Contras receive release papers.

People hold papers in their hands.

Freed Contras hug relatives.

People in the square.

Two men are talking, one of them is disabled on a crutch.

A girl is watching.

A temple with a statue and a Sandinista flag on the roof.

A destroyed temple inside.

Children at the temple, the roof of the temple.

Reel №3

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Managua.

Cars drive along the road among the palm trees.

A report on the streets.

Boys selling newspapers are sitting on the sidewalk.

Boys are selling parrots.

A report on the Mercado Oriental (Eastern Market): stalls, food sales, and other goods.

Children are selling newspapers and other goods in the middle of the highway to people sitting in their cars.

A boy with a flag is walking along the street.

A poster with the image of D. Ortega and his son.

A stand with the election slogans of the National Opposition Union UNO. Girls are dancing in the street.

Men are standing, holding flags with the inscription "UNO".

The editorial office of the newspaper "Prensa".

The editorial staff at work.

Hands are typing, writing.

B/W photographs of the former publisher of "Prensa", national hero Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, his widow Violeta Chamorro - a member of the Governing Council of the Government of the National Renaissance, their children.

The son of P.H. and V. Chamorro Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of the Sandinista newspaper "Barricades" sits at the table.

Sandinista flag. P.J. and V. Chamorro's daughter Cristina Chamorro, director of the publishing house "Prensa" talks about the newspaper (in the editorial office).

Rally in support of UNO in the Central Square of Managua.

Violeta CHAmorro greets the people from the balcony.

Reel №4

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Street of Managua.

Building, sign in Spanish.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nicaragua Eli Altomirano in the lobby, giving an interview.

Portraits of K. Marx, F. Engels, V. I. Lenin on the wall.

Ruined and half-ruined houses.

Men ride by on a tractor.

Territory of a sugar factory.

Sugar cane field, a motorcyclist rides by.

Sugar cane.

Sprinkler system in the field.

UNO economic adviser Francisco Mayorga talks about the economic crisis.

Passers-by on the street, among them a woman with a baggage on her head.

A beggar on the sidewalk.

Poor people - a mother with a girl - on the street.

A bird soars in the sky.

Valley, a plowman walks.

Trees.

People on the ocean shore, children run in the water, a mountain is visible.

Poor neighborhoods of Managua, children run.

Women at home, taking off their underwear.

Girls sweep the street, carry firewood.

A little boy rolls a tire.

A fence with a sign in Spanish.

A dog by the railroad.

A trolley with people passes by.

People with UNO flags (demonstration) pass by in the street. V. Chamorro greets the people.

Children sit with UNO flags.

An election procession: riders pass by, some with UNO flags, others with Sandinista flags.

A female cameraman films.

Hands of a clapping woman. D. Ortega and others pass by in an open car.

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General elections: a queue at the polling station, people passing by.

A b/w photo in the newspaper of the National Opposition Union representatives V. Chamorro and V. Godoy, who won the elections.

Journalists in front of the TV. D. Ortega speaks on TV after the elections (taken from video).

The bell is swinging.

Newsreel from 1979: A soldier swings a bell.

People lift a soldier with a machine gun in their arms.

People with machine guns greet the people from their cars.

People on the balcony of a destroyed house. D. Ortega passes and speaks.

TV screen. D. Ortega is standing - taken from video.

A poster with a portrait of D. Ortega on the ground, a portrait of D. Ortega with his son.

Men take posters off metal supports and carry them to a car.

Children on the street.

An empty square in Managua, a poster.

A young man pushes a wheelbarrow with garbage.

A train with open carriages passes through the square.

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