Carta a una sombra (2015)
1h 10m
Running Time
October 28, 2015Release Date
Carta a una sombra (2015)
1h 10m
Running Time
October 28, 2015Release Date
Plot.
In August 1987, Héctor Abad Gómez was murdered on the streets of downtown Medellín during the darkest moments of the dirty war against the Colombian left. Why was he killed? Who could have had a vested interest in silencing a university professor, human rights activist and doctor who was a precursor of the concept of "public health" in Colombia?
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Cast & Crew.
Clara Abad
Self
Maryluz Abad
Self
Vicky Abad
Self
Cecilia Faciolince
Self
Héctor Abad Faciolince
Self / Writer
Daniela Abad Lombana
Director / Executive Producer / Writer
Miguel Salazar
Director / Director of Photography / Writer / Executive Producer
Catalina Vela
Producer
Details.
Wiki.
There is a film called Letter to a Shadow. Her grandfather, a pioneer in the field of public health and human rights defender, was murdered in 1987 by a hit man in the city of Medelln. The book was written by the father of the director. The Abad family's story is told in the documentary, which depicts the violence in which the nation was trapped in the 1980s and 1990s. The film won two awards.