Antonio Eguino

Chuquiago

Antonio Eguino

Néstor Yujiri, Edmundo Villarroel

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

Los Andes no creen en Dios

Antonio Eguino

Diego Bertie, Carla Ortiz

End of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism, it is charged with a collective euphoria produced by the bewitching mineral. The lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration.

Amargo Mar

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Pueblo chico

Antonio Eguino

After several years a student returns to his native village only to find that despite the agrarian reform act of 1952, nothing has changed in the treatment of peasants, and racial discrimination continues.