Operation Just Cause

Operation Just Cause (2019)

Operación Causa Justa

The stories of a Panamanian officer who feels betrayed by his superiors, of a young man from the neighborhood trying to prevent his friends from going out to fight, of a fisherman going through a thousand adventures trying to bury his compadre, of an imprisoned American businessman for conspiring as a CIA agent against the dictatorship and an alcoholic prostitute who cannot escape her past ... all in the middle of the Christmas preparations, just as the US invasion of Panama begins.

Date of release
2019-10-31
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
War, Drama, Action
Director
Luis Franco Brantley, Luis Pacheco

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Operation Just Cause is a 2019 Panamanian action war historical drama film directed by Luis Franco Brantley and Luis Pacheco, and produced by executive producers Janet Alvarez Gonzalez and Jacobo Silvera. It was selected as the Panamanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Production

The budget was variously reported as totaling $900,000, or initially costing $680,000 before being raised to about $1,500,000 by the end of the production due to the scale of the film. The film was a Panamanian production made with Colombian support, with co-director Luis Pacheco describing the movie as aiming to "keep this history alive so that it is not forgotten. (The invasion) is not something that should be set aside.

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