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Mamani in El Alto (2022)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 35M

Director : Heinz Emigholz
Writer : Heinz Emigholz

Synopsis

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.

Actors

Crews

Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz
Director
Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz
Screenplay
Till Beckmann
Till Beckmann
Cinematography
Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz
Cinematography
Ueli Etter
Ueli Etter
Sound
Till Beckmann
Till Beckmann
Editor
Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz
Editor
Frieder Schlaich
Frieder Schlaich
Producer
Irene von Alberti
Irene von Alberti
Producer

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