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Federico García Hurtado

Federico García Hurtado

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Biography

Federico García Hurtado (Septermber 1937- 23 October 2020) was a Peruvian filmmaker and writer. He directed 13 films and is considered a representative of Latin American cinema with social commentary.​

Known For

Entangling Shadows
5.8

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.

Entangling Shadows

1998
Tupac Amaru
6.8

A painful true story of a revolutionary Andian warrior whose strength and devotion to his people influenced many in Latin America, Africa and the West.

Tupac Amaru

1984
El forastero
6.0

A stranger arrives in the country from a distant galaxy. He lands somewhere in the Andes near the small town of Paucartambo in Cusco. He comes from an annihilated planet and has been sent in search of a habitable world where his civilization can settle. When the stranger enters into contact with the village people he gradually regains his human condition. He finds love and sex with a prostitute, who is waiting for miracle, he finds a strange mixture of goodness and greed in the village mayor and his family and with the indigenous poet and shaman he grows closer to the bounty, beauty and unfathomable mystery of nature.

El forastero

2002
La manzanita del diablo
8.0

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La manzanita del diablo

1990
Fico García
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No description available.

Fico García

2021
Melgar, el poeta insurgente
8.0

The life and legend of Arequipa poet Mariano Melgar (1791-1815), hero of the insurrection led by José Angulo and chief Mateo Pumacahua in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1815.

Melgar, el poeta insurgente

1982
El socio de Dios
7.0

Julio César Arana, a rubber baron in the Putumayo region, who was characterized by being a callous, heartless, and debased personality, allies himself with foreign companies, to exploit rubber reserves in the Peruvian Amazon region. He stops at nothing, not even the extermination of indigenous tribes. Thus, the so-called crimes of Putumayo occur; the Amazonian communities rebel and resist.

El socio de Dios

1986
Dancers of the Sacred Mountain
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Documentary about the force of the scissors dance, its historical importance and cultural resistance through the body and its movements.

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain

2002
Huando
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Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

Huando

1975
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The life and work of the writer and thinker Jose Carlos Mariátegui, a great defender of the freedoms of Peruvian society.

La yunta brava

2000
Laulico
8.0

In Fuerabamba, according to the myth, the land dried up since, in ancient times, the world of the community was captured by the Iberian conquerors and taken prisoner in the Pamparqui ranch. For this reason, the Fuerabambinos lost their status as farmers and became rustlers. During all the stages of the hacienda to free the prisoner god and recover their status as farmers, they were always rejected. Laúlico, head of the community, makes decisions at the hacienda but then finds himself and his people once again.

Laulico

1979
Kuntur Wachana
5.5

Kuntur Wachana is a docudrama in which Garcia re-created the 1950s uprising of the Huaran hacienda campesinos against the hacendados, which led to the assassination of two union organizers. The film then follows the travails of the peasants until 1969, when the Huaran Cooperative was formed.

Kuntur Wachana

1977
El Amauta
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Biopic about the life of Jose Carlos Mariategui.

El Amauta

1999
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The film, after showing some articles from the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, promulgated in Algiers in 1974, presents Nicolás Maduro at an OAS session held in Panama, responding to attacks from the United States Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza Rice.

Venezuela País en Trance

2013
El Caso Huayanay: Testimonio de Parte
N/A

Fictional reconstruction of the famous “Huayanay Case” that highlighted the age-old opposition between the official country and the real country.

El Caso Huayanay: Testimonio de Parte

1980
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Documentary.

Kausachún Perú

1972
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Documentary.

Frontón: Historia de una Masacre

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Documentary about Daniel Estrada Pérez.

Qosqoruna

2006
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Short film.

Huando, tierra sin patrones

1971
Alfredo Torero: Cuatro Estaciones de un Hombre Total
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Documentary.

Alfredo Torero: Cuatro Estaciones de un Hombre Total

2011