Down Came a Blackbird

• Director: Jonathan Sanger
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Psychological Drama
• Themes: Haunted By the Past, Totalitarian States, Members of the Press
• Release Year: 1995
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

In this psychological drama, a woman tries to get on with her life after she is captured and tortured in a nameless South American country. It begins as US journalist Helen McNulty and her photographer/lover Jan travel to the country to find a rebel leader. Instead they are captured during a protest demonstration, separated, and tortured. She survives the ordeal and ends up back in Portland, Oregon, still grieving for Jan a year later. Though she has buried most of the terrifying experience and is determined to live a normal life, she finds herself forced to face the experience when she attends a symposium for survivors of political torture and decides to write a story on Anna Lenke, the keynote speaker and Holocaust survivor. Lenke runs a center for survivors and while there, Helen finds Anna treating her like a therapy patient, rather than a reporter. Conflict ensues. More conflict erupts when a mysterious, Latin professor, Tomas Ramirez arrives at the clinic. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

L. Scott Caldwell - Cerises; Sarita Choudhury - Myrna; Laura Dern - Helen McNulty; Cliff Gorman - Nick the Greek; Raul Julia - Tomas Ramirez; Vanessa Redgrave - Anna Lenke; Jay O. Sanders - Jan Talbeck

Credit

Linda Matheson - Costume Designer, Jonathan Sanger - Director, Barbara Dunphy - Production Designer, Kees Van Oostrum - Cinematographer, Laura Dern - Producer, Richard Attenborough - Producer, Brian Eastman - Producer, Jana Sue Memel - Producer, David Lee - Sound/Sound Designer

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