Salvador

Apr 23, 1986

2h 3m

★ 7.0

Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia...

Overview

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

War

Production Companies

Hemdale

Cinema '85

Estudios Churubusco Azteca

Salvador Trailers

Cast

Richard Boyle

James Woods

Doctor Rock

Jim Belushi

Ambassador Thomas Kelly

Michael Murphy

John Cassady

John Savage

Maria

Elpidia Carrillo

Major Maximilliano Casanova

Tony Plana

Jack Morgan

Colby Chester

Cathy Moore

Cynthia Gibb

Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr.

Will MacMillan

Pauline Axelrod

Valerie Wildman

Archbishop Romero

José Carlos Ruiz

COlonel Julio Figueroa

Jorge Luke

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