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SUGAR HELL
By: Adriano Zecca
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Target: family
Version: Italian
Subtitles: English
Length: 46'
Year of production: 2006
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| At the end of the zafra, the braceros do not even have enough money to return home. They unwittingly become illegal migrants, and end up in bateyes, run-down camps hidden among the plantations. There, like their slave forefathers, they lead a life of misery: starvation wages, promiscuity, no access to medical treatment or pension benefits, no education for the children who often follow their parents into this “sugar hell”. Over time, up to 700 thousand have settled illegally in the Dominican Republic. This documentary was filmed in the agricultural area of Los Llanos, a seemingly boundless region of plantations belonging to the Vicinis, one of the country’s most powerful families who have several sugar refineries. Their sugar mills are primarily run for one specific client: the USA. An Anglo-Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley Sartorius, has been struggling for the rights of the braceros for many years, and has been the subject of intimidation and even death threats. For the migrants he is a saint. Landowners can’t bear the sight of him. |
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