Postales de Leningrado (Venezuela 2007)
Dir. Mariana rondón
October 4, 2012 - ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Synopsis. During the leftist uprising in the 1960s in Venezuela, a young guerrilla-girl, living in secrecy, gives birth to her first daughter during Mother's Day. Due to that, her photos appear on the newspaper, since that moment they'd have to run away.
Costumes, hiding places and fake names are the day to day of the girl who narrates this story.
Alongside her cousin Teo, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla parents, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around the armed subversion, where the line between reality and madness is hardly perceptible.
But the child’s game is incapable of hiding the death, torture, accusations and treason involving the guerrilla.
The children dream of becoming The Invisible Man, in order to be safe and out of harm’s way. Nevertheless, even if they run from fear at times, they know that their parents may never return, and instead, only receive “Postcards from Leningrad”.
Costumes, hiding places and fake names are the day to day of the girl who narrates this story.
Alongside her cousin Teo, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla parents, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around the armed subversion, where the line between reality and madness is hardly perceptible.
But the child’s game is incapable of hiding the death, torture, accusations and treason involving the guerrilla.
The children dream of becoming The Invisible Man, in order to be safe and out of harm’s way. Nevertheless, even if they run from fear at times, they know that their parents may never return, and instead, only receive “Postcards from Leningrad”.
Mariana Rondón
Mariana is a scriptwriter, producer and an artist from Venezuela. She studied film at the International Film School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Then she took courses on animation in France. In 1990 she was one of the founders of "Sudaca Films", an multinational film enterprise from the Andean region. Calle 22 (1994) is one of her first short films, which received a prize at the Festival de Cine y Cultura de América Latina de Biarritz. In 1999 she directed Al la media noche y media (1999). Finally in 2007 she directed Postales de Leningrado, an autobiographical film.