(The Condor and the Bull)

Content: Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured and pitted against a bull during a bullfight in the town plaza. Through this event power relations are revealed between the villagers of Ocongate and the highlanders, and of both of them to the Peruvian state.

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Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

56 minutes

Year:

1989

Directors:

Peter Getzels

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