The Feast of The Goat

– Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's rela..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.40 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 12 Minutes
Release Year:
2005
Original Name:
La Fiesta del Chivo
The Feast of the Goat (2005) - Also known as La Fiesta del Chivo

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

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Release Date:

03 Mar 2006

Language:

English

Director:

Luis Llosa

Writer:

Luis Llosa (screenplay), Augusto Cabada (screenplay), Zachary Sklar (screenplay), Mario Vargas Llosa (novel)

Main Actors:

Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman, Juan Diego Botto

Plot:

Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this is the story of Urania Cabral, a beautiful, kind, intelligent and independent Manhattan lawyer whom, after 30 years returns to República Dominicana to face her ghosts... and the horrifying circumstances that altered her life forever when she was a teenager and Rafael Leónidas Trujillo a.k.a El Chivo (The Goat) was the iron-handed ruler of this island paradise... after Urania faces her past, nothing in her present or future will ever be the same again.

Production:

Future Film Group

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.4/10