Kuntur Wachana
Directed byFederico García
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryPeru
LanguagesQuechua, 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]

Summary

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

See also

References

  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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) see: kuntur, wachay and -na
  3. Peter H. Rist, Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema, 2014, p. 272-274


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