The Old Soldiers
Based on an unpublished novel by Jorge Sanjinés
Jorge Sanjinés
Jorge Sanjinés
Casts & Crew
Cristian Mercado
Roberto Choquehuanca
Also Directed by Jorge Sanjinés
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Bolivian drama that serves as a plea for tolerance of cultural diversity in that country.
In this Bolivian story, a man remembers his life while on a journey which will help him expiate his sins and which will result in his death. The focus on the story is on a man who has betrayed everyone he knows. He is planning to perform an ancient ritual dance which will end with his life being taken. He journeys from where he was living back to the village where most of the people he wronged still live. As he journeys, carrying his distinctive dance costume, his story is told in flashbacks. Once he gets there, he gets involved in the affairs of the villagers once more.
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
A guerrilla group arrives in an indigenous community of the Peruvian sierra with the intention of recruiting volunteers.
A film without a single word except for a scream of "Aysa".The story of the harsh and inexorable life of tin miners.
Documentary that offers a great overview of the history of Bolivia, their misery, the popular indomitable spirit and repressions that occur without pause.
Through the reconstruction of crucial historical moments in the long struggle of the Bolivian Indians in search of the recovery of lost sovereignty, due to the Spanish colonization and the oppression of their descendants the republican Creoles, is rescued from official oblivion several indigenous heroes who shone with their own light in that extraordinary feat that culminates with the rise of an Indian to the Presidency of Bolivia.