Der Traum des Sandino

19 months after the fall of the dictator Somoza the Austrian film team travels across Nicaragua for seven weeks from August 4th to September 20th 1980 and gathers information mostly from farmers workers market women and soldiers We are shown life in the Fincas the agricultural cooperatives in a banana plantation of Standard Fruit a private corporation in the Carlos Roberto Huembes Hospital in La Esperanza which is run by Austrians A report on Nicaragua of 1980 which discusses the dream of the murdered freedom fighter of Nicaragua General CA Sandino and whether it has been realized and answers this question affirmativeley In spite of the present and threatening difficulties the film is optimistic