Satanas

Satanas may refer to:

See also

Satanás (novel)

Satanás (Satanas) is a novel by the Colombian writer Mario Mendoza published in 2002. It is about three stories happening around a real fact on December 1986. Campo Elías Delgado, a Vietnam War veteran killed 30 people in a luxurious restaurant, all his apartment building neighbors, a student of him and her mother, and his own mother. Finally he committed suicide. The novel narrates his life and that of three of his victims. It was inspiration for the movie of the same name produced in 2007.

Satanás

Satanás (Spanish for Satan) is a 2007 Colombian film directed by Andi Baiz. It is adapted from the novel of the same title by Mario Mendoza Zambrano which is based on the spree killing committed by Campo Elías Delgado that took place in Bogotá in 1986. It was Colombia's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot

The film follows the lives of three separate characters, Eliseo, Paola, and Father Ernesto, living in the city of Bogota, Colombia, in the mid 1980s.

Eliseo, a middle-aged English teacher and veteran of the Vietnam War, has difficulties creating and maintaining relationships (especially with women). He lives with his aging mother, Blanca, but they detest each other and argue constantly. Eliseo is also irritated by his neighbor and landlord, Beatriz, who keeps asking him for money for her charitable works. He always coldly refuses, and is treated rudely at the local store as a result.

Eliseo works as a teacher of English, and one of his students is 15-year-old Natalia. He develops a crush on Natalia, who is gentle and polite during lessons. Invited to Natalia's birthday party, Eliseo is angry when he realizes that Natalia has a boyfriend, Esteban.