A film by Fernando Trueba
2020 | 136 minutes | Colombia
| SYNOPSIS Based on the internaLonally best selling memoir, Memories of My Father, is a film about Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent doctor and human rights activist in the polarized and violent Medellín, Colombia of the 1970s. The story tells of the life of a doctor and a father who is concerned about both his children and children from underprivileged classes. The settng is the house, where you breathe an air of vitality and creativity characteristic of education based on tolerance and love. Nothing suggests that terrible cancer will end the life of one of his daughters. Sadness and rage at the loss of an exceptional being will lead Héctor to give himself, with all his soul, to the cause of exposing an intolerant society that not only does not listen to him but will persecute him to silence him. This an intimate story that we see from the eyes of a father’s only son, Héctor Abad Faciolince, one of the most outstanding writers in contemporary Colombia. |