Esperanza (2012)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 7M
Director : Maider Oleaga
Escritor : Maider Oleaga
Sinopsis
A day in the life of Esperanza, a Quechua girl who lives in the remote mountains of southwestern Bolivia.
Cuenta la historia real de Yossi Ghinsberg, un joven aventurero que vivió para escribir un bestseller de memorias sobre su aventura en el interior del Amazonas. Con una guía incompleta y dos amigos más, el viaje se convirtió en un calvario psicológico y aterrador en el que lucharon por sobrevivir ante las amenazas de los elementos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana.
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Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...
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