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Open Wound

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Open Wound
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Country Ecuador-Argentina
Directed by Alfredo Leon Leon
Release Date September/6th/2013
Language Spanish
Studio Dominio Digital and Trivial Media
Distributor Cine Tren (Argentina)
Main Cast
Character Actor
Jorge Rene Pastor
Carlitos Diaz Lider Medrana
Julio Grueso Fabio Nieves
Sergeant Flores Alfredo Espinoza
Subofficer Mario Pietro Sibille


Open Wound or Mono con Gallinas is a film which narrates the events of the conflict between Ecuador and Peru on the southern border in 1941, when Jorge (Rene Pastor) joins the Ecuadorian military and is captured by Peruvian forces. While recovering from his injuries, a fellow captive plans an escape, and Jorge must decide to stay away or stay with the nurse he's in love with.

The movie is based on the life of the great-uncle of the film director Alfredo León León, Jorge León Chávez when he was 18 years old and was a soldier of the border conflict against Peru in 1941. Much of the story is fiction reconstructed from the experiences of Jorge, who was imprisoned for 8 or 9 months by the Peruvian army in Iquitos and because no one found out about this, they gave him for dead, thus far appearing in military records as killed in war. The film is not about the war itself, rather it is the story of Jorge's captivity, and it is not considered a biopic or historical document. The name of the film was given by the name given by the opposing sides, where the Ecuadorians were called monkeys and the Peruvians chickens.


The following weapons were used in the film Open Wound:


Pistols

Browning Hi-Power

This Browning Hi-Power pistol was the standard weapon of the armed forces of both countries, which is used by the following characters in the film and also it is the only semi-automatic pistol of the ecuatorian army to appear throughout the film's story.

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Browning Hi-Power - 9x19mm
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Sergeant Flores (Alfredo Espinoza) taking a black beetle with his gun near the river collecting supplies

Smith & Wesson 59

Although it was not a standard pistol within the Peruvian armed forces such as the 1894 revolvers or the Browning Hi-Power, the Smith & Wesson 59 is the gun that one of the antagonists uses almost at the end of the movie.

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Smith & Wesson 59 - 9x19mm Parabellum
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Subofficer Mario (Pietro Sibille) with his Smith & Wesson 59 aiming at Jorge while escaping from the military camp

Rifles

Mauser Puška vz. 24

The vz. 24 Czech Mauser was the standard rifle of the Ecuadorian armed forces during the 1941 conflict, here the protagonist Jorge uses this rifle during the events of the film.

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Puška vz. 24 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Jorge with his rifle hunting a monkey in the jungle
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View of the rifle with added bayonet from the other angle in the scene that Jorge points at a Shuar Indian who gives him a dead monkey to eat
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The young soldiers shooting some targets at the military camp with their Mauser rifles

Mauser Gewehr 1871/84

This old standard rifle of the Peruvian armed forces has less action during the film, since it is not seen firing. They are simply in the hands of the Peruvian soldiers after seeing the territory taken from the protagonists

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Mauser Gewehr 1871/84 - 11.15x60mmR
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Jorge with the Gewehr 1871/84 shooting to subofficer Mario after being hit in his stomach
The Shuar indigenous who gave Jorge food while being guarded by Peruvian soldiers in front of the camp commander

Machine Guns

Throughout the history of the Ecuadorian armed forces, Ecuador had a close alliance with Germany at the start of World War II, which Germany was the main seller of machine guns in that country that were used as standards until the decade of the 50's

MG42

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MG42 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Julio Grueso (Fabio Nieves) and his friends arriving to the military camp carring the MG42 with the left hand
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Close view of the MG42 during a shooting test before filming in the respective location, it is also one of the machine guns kept as a collection of the Ecuadorian army

Special Weapons

One of the weapons that although they did not appear in the movie, these weapons served as training for one of the actors who played their characters. The filming of the film took place near a military base of the special forces of the Ecuadorian army called IWIA. Specially in the province of Puyo,in the eastern Amazon of Ecuador

According to the director of the film, the same armed forces supported the production with the uniforms and weapons used at that time.


M1 Carbine

There is not much information if it was used by the armed forces during the conflict, however during the history of the country, this weapon was also used by members of the Ecuadorian national police

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M1 Carbine with heat shield, adjustable rear sight and 15-round magazine - .30 Carbine
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Fabio Nieves shooting a M1 Carbine in a military shooting range training his character

Heckler & Koch HK33

This is the standar rifle of the ecuatorian army to date, still in service

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Heckler & Koch HK33A2 with 40-round magazine - 5.56x45mm


FN MAG

Machine Gun standard of the Ecuadorian land force used both in war tanks and on land, although there are photographs of members of the air force using it

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FN MAG 58 - 7.62x51mm NATO
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A ecuatorian soldier teaching how to aiming in some directions for the scene of the film for the actor