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Open Wound

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Country	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ecuador Error creating thumbnail: File missing Argentina
Directed by	Alfredo León León
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 (Original Spanish title: Mono con Gallinas, English: Monkey with Chickens) is 2013 Ecuador-Argentine co-production war film directed by Alfredo León León depicting the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War on the southern border in 1941.

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 join him or stay with the Peruvian nurse he has fallen in love with while in captivity.

The movie is based on the life of the great-uncle of the film director Alfredo León León, Jorge León Chávez, who joined the Ecuadorian Army at the age of 18 in time to fight in 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 assumed dead, thus appearing in military records as killed in action. The film is not about the war itself, rather it is the story of Jorge's captivity, and it is not considered a biopic or historical document.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 refers to the derisive nicknames given by the opposing sides to their enemies, where the Ecuadorians were called monkeys and the Peruvians chickens.

The following weapons were used in the film Open Wound:

Pistols

Browning Hi-Power

The Browning Hi-Power is the standard sidearm of the armed forces of both countries and is the only pistol used by Ecuadorian forces throughout the film.

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-|director =  Alfredo Leon Leon
+|director =  Alfredo León León
-|date= September/6th/2013
+|date= September 6th, 2013
 |language = Spanish
 |gender = Drama/Action
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 |actor5=[[Pietro Sibille]]
 }}
-'''''Mono con Gallinas''''' or Open Wound 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.
+'''''Open Wound''''' (Original Spanish title: ''Mono con Gallinas'', English: ''Monkey with Chickens'') is 2013 Ecuador-Argentine co-production war film directed by Alfredo León León depicting the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War on the southern border in 1941.
-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.
+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 join him or stay with the Peruvian nurse he has fallen in love with while in captivity.
+The movie is based on the life of the great-uncle of the film director Alfredo León León, Jorge León Chávez, who joined the Ecuadorian Army at the age of 18 in time to fight in 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 assumed dead, thus appearing in military records as killed in action. 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 refers to the derisive nicknames given by the opposing sides to their enemies, where the Ecuadorians were called monkeys and the Peruvians chickens.
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 =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.
+The [[Browning Hi-Power]] is the standard sidearm of the armed forces of both countries and is the only pistol used by Ecuadorian forces throughout the film.
-[[File:BrowningHiPowerPistol9mm.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Browning Hi-Power - 9x19mm]]
+[[File:BrowningHiPowerPistol9mm.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Browning Hi-Power - 9x19mm]]
-[[File:Sergeant Flores and the Black Beetle.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Sergeant Flores (Alfredo Espinoza) taking a black beetle with his gun near the river collecting supplies]]
+[[File:Sergeant Flores and the Black Beetle.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Sergeant Flores (Alfredo Espinoza) taking a black beetle with his gun while collecting supplies near the river.]]
 ==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.
+An anachronistic [[Smith & Wesson 59]] is the sidearm carried by Peruvian Army ''Suboficial'' Mario (Pietro Sibille).
-[[File:Smith_%26_Wesson_59.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Smith & Wesson 59 - 9x19mm Parabellum]]
+[[File:Smith_%26_Wesson_59.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Smith & Wesson 59 - 9x19mm Parabellum]]
-[[File:McG Hi-Power.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Subofficer Mario (Pietro Sibille) with his Smith & Wesson 59 aiming at Jorge while escaping from the military camp]]
+[[File:McG Hi-Power.jpg|thumb|none|600px|''Suboficial'' Mario (Pietro Sibille) aims his Smith & Wesson 59 at Jorge while the latter escapes from the prison camp.]]
 =Rifles=
 ==Mauser Puška vz. 24==
-The [[VZ-24 Czech Mauser|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.
+The [[vz. 24 Czech Mauser]] was the standard rifle of the Ecuadorian armed forces during the 1941 conflict, and is used by Jorge (Rene Pastor) and other Ecuadorian soldiers.
 [[File:Czech vz. 24.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Puška vz. 24 - 7.92x57mm Mauser]]
-[[File:McG Czech Mauser 1.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Jorge with his rifle hunting a monkey in the jungle]]
+[[File:McG Czech Mauser 1.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Jorge with his rifle while hunting a monkey in the jungle.]]
-[[File:Jorge and the Shuar indigenous.jpg|600px|thumb|none|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]]
+[[File:Jorge and the Shuar indigenous.jpg|600px|thumb|none|View of the rifle with mounted bayonet while Jorge aims at a Shuar Indian who gives him a dead monkey to eat.]]
-[[File:Shooting range in the jungle.jpg|600px|thumb|none|The young soldiers shooting some targets at the military camp with their Mauser rifles]]
+[[File:Shooting range in the jungle.jpg|600px|thumb|none|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
+Peruvian Army forces are armed with antiquated [[Mauser Gewehr 1871|Mauser Gewehr 1871/84]] rifles, along with Jorge (Rene Pastor), who makes use of a captured rifle. These rifles are rather out of place for frontline military units in 1941 (they were considered obsolete by the time of the ''First'' World War). Peruvian forces during the 1941 conflict primarily used more modern Mauser rifles like the [[Gewehr 1898]], as well as the vz. 24 rifle also used by the Ecuadorians.
 [[File:Gr71-84_70.jpg|450px|thumb|none|Mauser Gewehr 1871/84 - 11.15x60mmR]]
-[[File:Jorge and the Peruvian 1909 Mauser.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Jorge with the Gewehr 1871/84 shooting to sergeant Mario after being hit in his stomach]]
+[[File:Jorge and the Peruvian 1909 Mauser.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Jorge fires a Gewehr 1871/84 at ''Suboficial'' Mario (Pietro Sibille).]]
-[[File:Peruvian soldiers and the Shuar.jpg|600px|thumb|none|The Shuar indigenous who gave Jorge food while being guarded by Peruvian soldiers in front of the camp commander]]
+[[File:Peruvian soldiers and the Shuar.jpg|600px|thumb|none|The Shuar Indian 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==
+==MG 42==
-[[File:MG42 Left.jpg|400px|thumb|none|MG42  7.92x57mm Mauser]]
+A slightly anachronistic [[MG 42]] is carried by Julio Grueso (Fabio Nieves) and fired in a scene when the Peruvian troops attack Jorge's camp. This film takes place in 1941, a year before the adoption of the MG 42 by Germany. The [[MG 34]] would be a more period-accurate choice. Ecuador had a close alliance with Germany at the start of World War II, with Germany being the main supplier of modern machine guns that were used by the military until the 1950s.
-[[File:Julio and his friends.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Julio Grueso (Fabio Nieves) and his friends arriving to the military camp carring the MG42 with the left hand]]
+[[File:MG42 Left.jpg|450px|thumb|none|MG42 - 7.92x57mm Mauser]]
-[[File:Close View of the MG42.jpg|600px|thumb|none|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]]
+[[File:Julio and his friends.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Julio Grueso (Fabio Nieves) with the MG 42 over his shoulder as he and his friends arrive at the military camp. One does not envy the real soldiers who had to hike through the sweltering jungle while carrying all that equipment!]]
+[[File:Close View of the MG42.jpg|600px|thumb|none|A close-up of the MG 42 used during weapons handling training, as seen in a behind-the-scenes video. It is one of the machine guns kept in the collections of the Ecuadorian Army.]]
-=Special Weapons=
+=Behind-The-Scenes 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
+Although these weapons did not actually appear in the movie, these weapons were used to train actors in firearm handling in preparation for playing their characters. The filming of the film took place near a military base of a jungle warfare special forces brigade of the Ecuadorian Army known as ''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
+While it is unlikely the [[M1 Carbine]] was actually used by the armed forces during the conflict, this weapon was historically used by the National Police of Ecuador.
-[[File:M1 Carbine.jpg|400px|thumb|none|M1 Carbine with heat shield, adjustable rear sight and 15-round magazine - .30 Carbine]]
+[[File:M1 Carbine.jpg|450px|thumb|none|M1 Carbine with heat shield, adjustable rear sight and 15-round magazine - .30 Carbine]]
-[[File:M1 Carbine (Ecuador).jpg|600px|thumb|none|Fabio Nieves shooting a M1 Carbine in a  military shooting range training his character]]
+[[File:M1 Carbine (Ecuador).jpg|600px|thumb|none|Fabio Nieves shooting a M1 Carbine at a military shooting range.]]
 ==Heckler & Koch HK33==
-This is the standar rifle of the ecuatorian army to date, still in service
+The [[Heckler & Koch HK33]], the current standard issue rifle of the Ecuadorian Army, also makes an appearance.
-[[File:HK33 A2.jpg|400px|thumb|none|Heckler & Koch HK33A2 with 40-round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]
+[[File:HK33 A2.jpg|450px|thumb|none|Heckler & Koch HK33A2 with 40-round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]
+[[File:HK33 Shooting range.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Fabio Nieves shoots an HK33 fitted with a 30-round magazine in fully-automatic during the shooting of the behind-the-scenes reel.]]
 ==FN MAG==
+The [[FN MAG]], Ecuador's current standard issue machine gun for both infantry and vehicle use, also appears.
+[[File:FNMAG.jpg|450px|thumb|none|FN MAG 58 - 7.62x51mm NATO]]
+[[File:FNG (Ecuadorian Army).jpg|600px|thumb|none|A Ecuadorian soldier teaching some of the actors how to properly aim.]]
-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
+[[Category:Argentinian Produced]]
-[[File:FNMAG.jpg|400px|thumb|none|FN MAG 58 - 7.62x51mm NATO]]
+[[Category:Drama]]
-[[File:FNG (Ecuadorian Army).jpg|600px|thumb|none|A ecuatorian soldier teaching how to aiming in some directions for the scene of the film for the actor]]
+[[Category:Movie]]
+[[Category:War]]

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Latest revision as of 00:07, 9 November 2023

Pistols

Browning Hi-Power

Smith & Wesson 59

Rifles

Mauser Puška vz. 24

Mauser Gewehr 1871/84

Machine Guns

MG 42

Behind-The-Scenes Weapons

M1 Carbine

Heckler & Koch HK33

FN MAG

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