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Down Came a Blackbird is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jonathan Sanger released in USA on 22 october 1995 with Raúl Juliá

Down Came a Blackbird (1995)

Down Came a Blackbird
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Released in USA 22 october 1995
Length 1h53
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating64% 3.2481753.2481753.2481753.2481753.248175

Down Came a Blackbird is a 1995 drama film made for TV starring Raúl Juliá. It was the final film appearance of Juliá, filmed in October 1994. Juliá died two weeks after production finished and a year before its release.

Synopsis

Tomás Ramírez (Raúl Juliá) is a professor who joins a clinic run by Anna Lenke (Vanessa Redgrave), a Holocaust survivor, psychologist and the clinic's proprietor, whose patients are also recovering Holocaust and torture victims. Among them is Helen McNulty (Laura Dern), a journalist tortured by the death squads of an unidentified Central American country controlled by a dictatorship. In time she grows close to Ramírez, but suspicions are aroused when three men attempt to detain him while he and McNulty are on a date. McNulty is able to photograph one of the assailants and sends the picture to a colleague for possible identification.

Actors

Raúl Juliá

(Tomas Ramirez)Laura Dern

(Helen McNulty)Vanessa Redgrave

(Anna Lenke)Cliff Gorman

(Nick the Greek)Sarita Choudhury

(Myrna)
And :
Jay O. Sanders
Jeffrey DeMunn
L. Scott Caldwell
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