Synopsis
Portrait of a legendary peasant leader and famous Trotskyist “guerrilla fighter” who preferred to encourage self- government and to become an anonymous.
The film confronts the idealized archetype of the sixties, a young black-bearded man with raised fist shouting "Land or Death!": Hugo Blanco, with the anonymous social fighter nowadays: 'Hugo Indio'.
The author meets the white-bearded and tireless Hugo Blanco, her father’s revolutionary hero, in the aftermath of the Peruvian Internal War, where rivers of Indian blood have been the price of a generation’s dream that turned into a nightmare: the dream of the armed revolution. Starting with a journey to the forgotten jungle village where Blanco’s fight and fame began, the author follows the traces of the past facts and ideals in the present.
The film confronts the idealized archetype of the sixties, a young black-bearded man with raised fist shouting "Land or Death!": Hugo Blanco, with the anonymous social fighter nowadays: 'Hugo Indio'.
The author meets the white-bearded and tireless Hugo Blanco, her father’s revolutionary hero, in the aftermath of the Peruvian Internal War, where rivers of Indian blood have been the price of a generation’s dream that turned into a nightmare: the dream of the armed revolution. Starting with a journey to the forgotten jungle village where Blanco’s fight and fame began, the author follows the traces of the past facts and ideals in the present.
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