The film “They speak”, by director Sarah Polley, has won the Oscar for its original screenplay at the awards ceremony in Hollywood.
The film brings to the big screen the plot of the book of the same title written by the Canadian Miriam Toews, which recounts the systematic rapes of a group of women in a Mennonite village in deep Bolivia.
In a Mennonite colony settled in Molotschna, Bolivia, for years, dozens of women were systematically drugged and raped while they slept. Many woke up sore and bleeding. Those who dared to complain were silenced by the community that told them that everything was the result of their imagination or a punishment for their sins.
Over time, eight of them realized that their rapists were uncles, brothers or neighbors and they were encouraged to denounce them. In 2010, eight of these women meet in secret to make decisions that will change their lives. Opinions are torn between forgiving their abusers, staying in the community and fighting for things to change, or seeking justice and leaving their congregation forever.
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That’s the powerful story it tells They speak, Brought to the big screen by director Sarah Polley, based on the book of the same name by writer Miriam Toews.
The protagonists of the film are Rooney Mara (The alley of lost souls), Claire Foy (The Crown) and Frances McDormand (Olive Kitteridge, Nomadland), accompanied by Ben Whishaw (this is going to hurt), Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett.