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Blood of the Condor (Quechua: Yawar Mallku, Spanish: Sangre de cóndor) is a 1969 Bolivian docudrama film co-written and directed by Jorge Sanjinés and starring Marcelino Yanahuaya.
Blood of the Condor: Directed by Jorge Sanjinés. With Marcelino Yanahuaya, Benedicta Mendoza, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet. The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jorge Sanjinés
- 1969-11-20
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When village men, amid rumbles of mass infertility, are shot by corrupt police, Paulina takes Ignacio, the sole survivor, to the city for care. There she finds his brother, Sixto, a factory worker who has unhappily tried to assimilate with Western-inspired culture.
A radical, marxist, revolutionary, foundational Third Cinema attack on Western values and U.S. cultural imperialism, Jorge Sanjinés' Blood of the Condor had a profound impact on Bolivian politics at the time of its release and still casts a shadow across Latin American polity to this day.
The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
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May 5, 2023 · Yawar Mallku (The Blood of the Condor) is Jorge Sanjinés’s most famous film, even if not all critics would agree it is his best. On the day of its premiere in La Paz (17 July 1969), the theatre where it was about to be shown – the 18 de Julio – was suddenly closed down as a result of the film’s inflammatory subject matter; a public ...
