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Choices of the Heart is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Sargent with Melissa Gilbert
Choices of the Heart (1983)
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Add to a movie listChoices of the Heart is an award-winning television movie based on the lives of Jean Donovan, Archbishop Oscar Romero, and the three other churchwomen who were killed in El Salvador during their Civil War.
^ Humanitas Prize winners list 1975-2006
^ 1984 Humanitas Prize notation on film's IMDB page
^ John J. O'Connor New York Times, December 5 1983: "TV: DRAMA OF CHURCHWOMEN SLAIN IN EL SALVADOR"
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The movie is based on actual events. On March 24, 1980, Romero was killed, and three Roman Catholic nuns and a lay Catholic missionary were killed on December 2, 1980, by Salvadoran death squads, possibly funded by the United States. Three of the women dedicated their lives to helping refugees and sick people for years. Jean Donovan had been in El Salvador for over two years helping the children that she was so devoted to. Donovan says over and over in her letters to her family in the U.S. that God brought her to El Salvador. These women were raped, tortured, and killed by members of a Salvadoran death squad. Attempts from the Salvadoran and American governments were made to try to cover the murders up.Actors
Melissa Gilbert
(Jean Donovan)
Peter Horton
(Doug)
Helen Hunt
(Cathy)
Mari Gorman
(Sister Ita Ford)
Pamela Bellwood
(Sister Dorothy Kazel)
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