Die Frau des Reporters
MovieTitle | Die Frau des Reporters |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Mar 23, 1986 |
Genre | History, Drama |
Director | Heide Pils |
Production country | Germany, El Salvador, Austria |
Production companies | TELLUX-Film, ORF, ZDF |
Run time | 85 min. |
In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.