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1977 Peruvian film

Kuntur Wachana
Directed by Federico García
Release date 22 December 1977 (1977-12-22)
Running time 87 minutes
Country Peru
Languages Quechua, Spanish[1]

Kuntur Wachana (Quechua for 'where the condor is born')[2] is a Peruvian docudrama directed by Federico García Hurtado (born in Cusco, 1937). It was released in 1977. Kuntur Wachana won the FIPRESCI international critics' prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.[3]

Indigenous Peruvians led by Quechua peasant and trade union leader Saturnino Huillca struggle for land reform.

  1. ^ Enrique Mayer, Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2009, p. 44-53
  2. ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org. see: kuntur, wachay and -na
  3. ^ Peter H. Rist, Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema, 2014, p. 272-274