To commemorate the fifty-sixth anniversary of the April 1965 War, the feature film “April: The Trench of Honor” by filmmaker René Fortunato, is available today on its channel YouTube Videocine Palau.
Fortunato recalled that this internationally acclaimed documentary is a reconstruction with images and sounds from the time of the most important events that occurred during the war.
“These include the Battle of the Bridge, the assault on Ozama Fortress, US military intervention, the assault on the National Palace, and the June 15 and 16 attacks, among many others,” he said. expressed.
The renowned Dominican filmmaker said that the documentary quotes the speeches of Colonel Francisco Alberto Caamaño deno, leader of the constitutionalist revolution, popular demonstrations against US military intervention and negotiations that ended the conflict in the September 1965.
The acclaimed filmmaker has highlighted that the feature-length documentary “April: The Trench of Honor” premiered in October 1988 in four renowned cinemas of the time: Cinema Triple, Cinema Room, Cinema Bolívar and Palau de l ‘Movie theater. Later in 2005, a new enlarged version was made, corrected and enriched with new images. This is the version that is now available for free on the net.
The filmmaker stressed that on his YouTube channel the public can see other works by him on the April War, while inviting those interested in learning about little-known aspects of Dominican history, to subscribe to the Videocine Palau .
Among these videos are “Constitutionalist Macorisanos”, 55 minutes long, about the Petromacorisanos who participated in the April Revolution of the constitutionalist band; APRIL: 40 ANNIVERSARY, report commemorating the 40th anniversary of the April War, made in April 2005. This report has the special participation of: Héctor Lachapelle Díaz, Rafael Mejía Lluberes -Baby-, Dante Canela Escó, Teresa Espaillat, Aníbal de Penya, Marí Almánzar, Néstor Pimentel García, Luis Manuel Rojas Sanabia, Sagrada Bujosa, Manuel García German, Manuel Montes Arache, Miguel Ángel Muñiz Arias, Claudio Caamaño, Brunilda Amaral, Euclides Gutiérrez Félix, Wellington Ascanio Peterson Peters, Jesús de la Rosa, José Ignacio Noboa Garnes, Víctor Bisonó, Edmundo García, Tomy Núñez, Antonio Serrata and Mario Hernández, among others.
Also available on the Videocine Palau channel on Youtube “April: 50th Anniversary”, 20 minutes long and made in 2015; “April, at SD Independence Park” and “April, at SPM’s Duarte Park,” both three minutes long.
At the end of the conflict Colonel Francis Caamaño traveled to London, England to serve as Military Attaché at the Dominican Embassy. About his stay in this city is available the report “Caamaño in London. The life of the Hero in the English capital”, published on the channel on February 16, 2021, with a duration of twenty minutes. Two months later it already has more than one hundred thousand views (101,090).