Vicente Ferraz, Brazilian director of I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005), El Último Comandante (2010) and A Estrada 47 (2013) is reportedly developing a fictional feature film about a slave battalion during the very real Paraguay War, one of the most significant historical events in South America, that helped forge what the modern nations of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay - a conflict fought from 1864 to 1870 that I can't say has been tackled very much on film. Also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, this was the longest conflict between independent nations of Latin America, lasting from November 1864 to March 1870, when the Paraguayan leader, Marshal Solano Lppez,...
- 4/10/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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