La Sierra
| Movie | |
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| German title | La Sierra - Born to be a killer |
| Original title | La Sierra - Muerte en Medellin |
| Country of production | Colombia , USA |
| original language | Spanish , English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Dalton Margarita Martinez |
| script | Scott Dalton Margarita Martinez |
| production | Scott Dalton |
| camera | Scott Dalton |
| cut | Andrew Blackwell |
| occupation | |
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La Sierra ( German alternatively "La Sierra - Born to the Killer") is a Colombian - American documentary about the youth of the gang "Bloque Metro" in the Sierra quarter of the Colombian metropolis Medellín .
This paramilitary gang is in the almost daily fight against the guerrillas , and is therefore part of the armed conflict in Colombia . None of the members is older than 22, and their friends - although mostly only between 14 and 17 years old - are often already pregnant or have just become mothers.
This documentary by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez was filmed for over a year in the midst of the young combatants and shows the lives of three typical Medellin youths in the hopeless reality of a life of poverty and war in a shattered society. The youngsters take on the dirty work of the big warring drug cartels in the cities . Often addicted to drugs, they murder each other for the reward of prestige , power , money and desirability among women.
Edison, the 22-year-old commander of the paramilitary "Bloque Metro", Cielo, the 17-year-old girlfriend of an imprisoned gang member, and Jesús, a 19-year-old soldier in Edison's troop, open up to the filmmakers with striking honesty and shocking fatalism. They all live a bizarre balancing act between dreams of a better life and brutal everyday life.
Edison has eight illegitimate children from six very young girls and takes care of each and every one of his families. At night he leads the killer squads of the "Bloque Metro", in which he has been a member since he was 15, in the fight against the guerrilla movement. “When you're young, you like adventure. If someone has a cannon, you want one too. I wanted to belong to this group, I wanted to shoot, ”he said during the shoot. After the documentation has been completed, the military shoots him down on the street with a friend.
Cielo has a son and was widowed at the age of 15. She basically only lived in prison to visit her boyfriend, but after the breakup she ended up working as a prostitute in a bar.
Jesús, a school dropout and heavily addicted to cocaine, also has a child. Once when he was tinkering with a grenade, he shot half his arm off. He takes it just as calmly as his apparently predetermined fate: “Of course I will die young,” he says, “we have no future. We may survive this war, but then the next comes and then another, until you are finally killed becomes."
Awards
- "Best Documentary Feature", IFP Market New York 2004
- "Best Documentary", Miami 2005
- "Honorary Mention", Slamdance 2005
Web links
- La Sierra in the Internet Movie Database (English)