Diplomatic Immunity

Diplomatic Immunity is a Canadian political thriller film, released in 1991. It marked the narrative feature film debut of Sturla Gunnarsson. Plot Kim Dades, a Canadian diplomat working in El Salvador on a foreign aid program, who discovers that a community housing project paid for by the Canadian government has been overrun by the Salvadoran army. Production Development Sturla Gunnarsson and Steve Lucas met each other in 1978, and created After the Axe. In 1980, Gunnarsson met a refugee who fled Augusto Pinochet's Chile after being tortured. Gunnarsson met other Latin American refugees torture victims, including a Salvadoran woman, which inspired him to make a documentary entitled Torture. Elements of the Salvadoran woman's story were included in the final product.