Director Peter Getzels, Harriet Gordon, Penny Harvey
Country/Production UK
Release 1989
Length 56 mins
Format Colour / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location Peru / America
Ethnic Group Peruvian
Prizes/Commendations Basil Wright Film Prize 1990
Order No RAI-200.216
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Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured and pitted against a bull during a bullfight in the town plaza. Through this event power relations are revealed between the villagers of Ocongate and the highlanders, and of both of them to the Peruvian state.
