Storyline

Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement.

Plot Keywords

barricade, police violence, film set, film actor, latin america, colonial america, political protest, script, sign of the cross, crossing self, reference to the virgin mary, reference to jesus christ, helicopter, film within a film, burned at the stake, burned alive, indigenous people, riot, civil unrest, troubled production

Short Review

There are striking performances from Luis Tosar as a cynical yet flexible producer and Juan Carlos Aduviri as the native who becomes a figurehead for those who don't have the luxury of playacting.

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