The Tiger's Milk – Women of Nicaragua
Film duration:
30
Year:
1987
Countries:
United Kingdom
Original format:
16mm
Colour:
Black and white
Nicaraguan women describe details of their daily lives under the Somoza regime in this instructive documentary. The film consists of sepia still photographs with a single voice-over reading extracts of interviews made with women from different backgrounds and varying degrees of involvement with political changes. ‘The Tiger's Milk’ gives a strong sense of the solidarity among the women and their relationship to the revolution, to men and to each other. Their emancipation is seen as integral to Nicaragua's revolutionary process.
Description source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
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