Power and Impotence, a Drama in 3 Acts
( Poder e Impotencia, un Drama en 3 Actos )

Anna Recalde Miranda
2014 - 100 min - HD - Couleur - France, Paraguay

Fernando Lugo, "the bishop of the poor", former Catholic Bishop and member of the Liberation Theology, won the 2008 presidential elections in Paraguay. After 61 years of hegemony by the Colorado Party, created by the dictator Alfredo Stroessner who ruled Paraguay for 35 years, this unexpected victory came as a political miracle, the people's dream for change finally come true. But politics is not for saints and the dream turns into a nightmare.
In a political thriller settled in stranger-than-fiction Paraguay, we follow their hopes and disappointments from a rare behind-the-scene point of view, until the tragic ending and their fall from power. A unique period in the history is documented in an intimate, universal film, providing an insight on the sense and the limits of politics, on the paradoxes of representative democratic systems nowadays. A shakespearien contemporary drama about power.
A 52' version is also available.