The Motherland

Where to Watch The Motherland

Fancy watching 'The Motherland' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Juan Downey-directed movie via subscription can be a challenge, so we here at Moviefone want to help you out.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Motherland' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Motherland' right now, here are some particulars about the flick.

Released , 'The Motherland' stars The movie has a runtime of about 7 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from well-known users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "The Motherland is an ironic parable of Downeys native Chile Returning to Santiago he finds a society in the grips of the military dictatorship of General August Pinochet In a scenario that suggests the magic realism of Latin American fiction Downey visits the suburban house of his youth and stages a surreal reenactment of the Motherland giving birth to a duck while the crucified Prophet looks on This overtly symbolic scene is intercut with the spectacle of General Pinochet and his troops in full regalia In an unsparing indictment of the economic and political reality of the dictatorship The Motherland offers the Prophet as a sacrifice to the goosestepping ranks of Pinochets junta This savage allegory in which church and state conspire to oppress society and the individual merges the subjective and the cultural the autobiographical and the political" .