The film “Para Vivir o Morir” by director Fidel Muñiz and directed by Radel Villalona, currently on view for the general public in Santo Domingo, opened on 23 April. The third Dominican film with considerable domestic promotion in the last year and a half (the others being “Pasaje de Ida” and “Nueba Yol”), it addresses the issue of political and electoral fraud in a Latin American country. The timing of the film’s opening, less than one month before a presidential election, scheduled two years early due to accusations of fraud in the 1994 election, has been questioned by many, and some of the early reviews by Dominican critics have been quite adverse.
3-9 May 1996