Inferno tropicale (Tropical Hell) 2008
by Claudio Del Punta

Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 52’

The conditions of slavery in the sugar cane plantations of the Dominican Republic, next door to the tourist beaches visited by thousands of Italians. The documentary focuses principally on the daily work of an extraordinary man, Christopher Hartley, the Anglo-Spanish parish priest in San Jose` de Los Llanos who has been struggling for years against a family of powerful landowners of Italian origins.