Innocent voices

Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres's embattled childhood, Luis Mandoki's Innocent Voices is the poignant tale of Chava (Carlos Padilla), an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the "man of the house" after his father abandons the family in the middle of a civil war.

In El Salvador in the 1980s, the government's armed forces are already recruiting twelve year olds, rousting them out of their classes at the local middle school. If he is lucky, Chava has just one year of innocence left, one year before he, too, will be conscripted to fight the government's battle against the peasant rebels of the FMLN. Chava's life becomes a game of survival, not only from the bullets of the escalating war, but also from the dispiriting effects of daily violence. As he hustles to find work to help his single mother pay the bills, and experiences the pangs of first love for a beautiful classmate, Chava's tiny home village becomes both playground and battlefield.

Armed only with the love of his mother (Leonor Varela) and a small radio that broadcasts a forbidden anthem of love and peace, and faced with the impossible choice of joining either the army or the rebels, Chava finds the courage to keep his heart open, and his spirit alive, in his race against time.

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[saffdoggy]

i lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv­vvvvvvvvvve history but this just is so touching

[jasongurr]

Thank you for your comment.

Jason

[quickster93]

were can i find english subs so i can show my freind this

[jasongurr]

You Can buy this film in the UK and USA with English Subs

[jasongurr]

OK First off thanks for all the interest in this and the debate about the music. The name of this piece is "Lamb of God" by Samuel Barber when it is song by a chorus (the version I have used}.

But played by an orchestra it is called - Adagio for Strings, op.11 - Samuel Barber

[smil3nowcrylat3r]

T-T this movie is so sad i cried for one week man that is messed up how they shot the little boys when they are trying to help thier friend i fucking hate the army fuck myself for joining JROTC shame on me!! man i just wish for a world where there no war

[chernobilrasputin]

nice movie. i love it.

i hope never happend again in republica del salvador.............to sad........

[jozimrls]

kid got saved by his uncle!

[temperex]

@ivangrohl that would make them refugees, not immigrants you dumb bastard. and let me just say: fuck you. every country has the right to be culturally and ethnically homogeneous, It's a well known fact that the happiest countries are the most homogenised, so excuse some of us for wanting to live with our own people within our own country. so next time think a bit before thoughtlessly throwing out the race card like every other little prick who doesn't really have a constructive argument.

[onlylovesweetcheeks]

i love this movie so much..

it made me cry and feel thankful

that i wasnt there when this war

happen and especially thankful

my little brothers weren't there..

My favorite movie by far

[nicko0891]

i really like this movie, it is so very touching. in fact, when i watch this movie, im going to cry!

[chato4567]

poor little kids so sad

[asoundwave22]

@Zune111111 you are truly IGNORANT!! read you history before you post, the guerillas were mainly the poor and a bunch of college students standing up against the oppressive upper classes and their cotrolled military... it was a cry against injustices going on for years.. there was no middles class.. and really still is not..the americans only made it worse by supplying arms and funding the military not to mention trianing them how to torture among other things..

[Hulkmysterio14]

dang my country CRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!