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Cimarrones

1982 23 min
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“This powerful, short fiction film recreates events that took place in Peru in the early 1800s, when a group of cimarrones—runaway slaves—attacked a caravan to free friends who’d been sentenced to death.

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“This powerful, short fiction film recreates events that took place in Peru in the early 1800s, when a group of cimarrones—runaway slaves—attacked a caravan to free friends who’d been sentenced to death. Several of Peru’s vanguard artists of the early 1980s participated in the making of this film. The Afro-Peruvian leader is played by Amador Ballumbrosio, the elder patriarch of the legendary Ballumbrosio family, and the script was co-written by Enrique Verástegui, the iconic Peruvian poet (of African and Chinese descent) who founded the Movimiento Hora Cero. The film’s music was composed by Carlos Hayre, the great Peruvian musicologist who introduced the use of the cajón (box drum) in creole waltzes and Andean harmonies in modern jazz and bossa nova arrangements.
  • narrator
    Denise Petrus
  • actor
    Roberto Cueto
    Justina Guadalupe
    José Mamani
    Miguel Acevedo
    Amador Balleumbrosio
    "Pachato" Azin
    Luis Gutiérrez
    Homero Calderón
    Enrique Victoria
    Eduardo Ferrand
    Toni Pérez
    Mayta Acllahua
    Lloque Cori
  • historical research
    Luciano Correa
  • writer
    Carlos Ferrand
    Enrique Verastegui
  • assistant director
    Chino Pérez
  • sound recording
    Mario Jacobs
  • script
    Francis Lay
  • cinematography
    Carlos Ferrand
  • sound editing
    Graeme Campbell
    Roger Lemoyne
  • music
    Carlos Hayre
  • editor
    Graeme Campbell
  • producer
    Nené
  • director
    Carlos Ferrand
  • titles
    Yolande Hervet

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