When a Bolivian Indian travels to town to sell his produce, a half-caste who usually buys his goods visits the man's hut. He finds the man's wife alone and he is miffed when the husband is not there. After she explains that the town market will pay for the goods, the half-caste lusts after the wife and attacks her after she rejects his lecherous advances. The husband returns ho...
A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.
No stranger to controversy in his Bolivian homeland, Jorge Sanjines aims his films at his country's poor and working class in an attempt to inspire them to fight for equality and freedom. His best-known film is Yawar Mallku (Blood of the Condor) (1968), a scathing look at the terrible effects of U.S. imperialism on Bolivia's Indians. Sanjines worked as the director of the Boliv...
塞巴斯蒂安·马马尼回到了他很久以前就被驱逐出的艾马拉社区。他戴着死亡的巨大面具,他必须跳舞直到死去,这是对导致他流亡的罪孽的一种赎罪,也是他失去的文化身份中重生的一种方式。
"The Bolivian fiction feature Yawar Mallku is one of the most famous examples of Latin American militant cinema. Like most of these American militant films, this one was made on a modest budget in spite of major obstacles. Bolivia has no significant filmmaking traditions or facilities. Mules had to be used to transport the filmmakers and their equipment to a high and remote Ind...