- Country: Mexico
- Genres: Drama, Thriller, War
- Release: 1982-04-01
- Director: Fernando Vallejo
- Writers: Fernando Vallejo
- Language: Spanish
- Stars: Carlos Riquelme , Carmen Montejo , Roberto Cañedo , Dacia González , Gina Morett , Carlos Cardán , Fernando Balzaretti , Arturo Benavides , José Nájera , Jorge Patiño
- Runtime: min
- Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
- AKA: En la tormenta (Mexico) , En la tormenta
- Plot: An extremely powerful vision of La Violencia: a complex set of upheavals that took place between approximately 1945 and 1965 in Colombia and that combined elements of civil war between Liberals and Conservatives, revolutionary conflicts with the state, and military dictatorship. Vallejo, to cite Carlos Monsiváis, was not exactly a snake charmer when it came to pleasing the mass media at the time, and his films were banned in Colombia as 'apologies of violence'. This decision was, in my view, excessive, and may have had something to do with the State's unwillingness to face its responsibility for the bloodletting. The film was made in Mexico and this slightly detracts from the veracity of the film as a portrayal of these events - Vallejo later complained that the landscapes weren't right. But it does convey the collective insanity and frightening emptiness behind this meaningless 'civil war' - particularly in its disturbing alternation between extreme long-shots and extreme close-ups. A little less Max Factor would have made it more realistic ... but given that cinema and reality are dissolving into one in Colombia's violences, perhaps realism would have been inappropriate in this instance.
- IMDB:tt0277692
En la tormenta Cast · · · ALL
Fernando Vallejo
Director
Carlos Riquelme
Don Bernardo Echeverri
Carmen Montejo
Doña Toña
Roberto Cañedo
Pasajero
Dacia González
Pasajera conservadora
Gina Morett
Anita Palacio
Carlos Cardán
Jacinto Cruz Usma, sangrenegra
Fernando Balzaretti
Pasajero conservador
Arturo Benavides
Secuaz de sangrenegra
José Nájera
Don Martín Vázquez
Gerardo Vigil
Pedro Rubiano (el pajarito)
Jorge Reynoso
Secuaz de sangrenegra
Alejandro Camacho
Secuaz de sangrenegra
Rafael Fernández
Marcelo Villamil
Miembro tribunal justicia
Baltazar Ramos