Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
Acting
Marcelo Romo's physical transformation from soft hands to calloused worker.
Direction
Francia shoots factories like cathedrals, cathedrals like empty warehouses.
Director
Aldo Francia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Salvador Allende's socialist government, the film captures a brief window when Chilean cinema could openly critique church and state alike. The 1973 coup made such films dangerous.
Aldo Francia was a physician before becoming a filmmaker; his clinical eye for bodily suffering explains why Jaime's blistered hands matter more than any sermon.
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