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Photographer Susan Meiselas Returns to Nicaragua to Make a Film.

Photographer Susan Meiselas (My-SELL-us). She went to Nicaragua in the late 70s to photograph the Sandinista Revolution. She returned to Nicaragua recently to talk to the people she photographed more than ten years ago. Only this time she made a film about it, "Pictures From a Revolution."

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 17, 1991: Interview with Susan Meislas; Interview with Paul Schrader; Commentary on the Soviet Union.
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Film Director and Screen Writer Paul Schrader.

Film director and screen writer Paul Schrader. His screenwriting credits include "Taxi Driver" and "The Last Temptation of Christ." Schrader's directing credits include "Hard Core," "Light of Day," "American Gigolo" and "Patty Hearst." Schrader's latest movie is the psychological drama, "The Comfort of Strangers," just out on video. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/18/91).

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