Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.
62 min
This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example. "Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired" is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.
- Release date
- June 18, 2017
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $500,000
Trailer
Cast
- Óscar Arias as Self
- Tom Brokaw as Self
- The Dalai Lama as Self
- Stephanie Elam as Self
- Mikhail Gorbachev as Self
Crew
- Dawn Gifford Engle · Director
- Dawn Gifford Engle · Writer
- Jacque Gellein · Producer
- Rip Gellein · Producer
- Ana Morales · Producer
- Elizabeth Parmly Weber · Producer
- Elizabeth Holloway · Cinematographer
- Ivan Suvanjieff · Cinematographer
- Rogelio Vasquez · Cinematographer
- Elizabeth Holloway · Editor