Children of The Sun
Synopsis
Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A drama of Indigenous Kichwa/Quechua campesino struggle against an oppressive colonial hacienda patron. A dramatization of the hacienda system in Peru, in which Spanish colonial patrons stole large land tracts and forced Indigenous people to work the land. When one man refuses to work the hacienda in exchange for meager coca leaves, he initiates an Indigenous Campesino rejection of the hacienda system.
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