Blood of the Condor (1969)

Original title

Yawar mallku

Directed by

Jorge Sanjinés

Genre

thriller film

Country

Bolivia

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

+16

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An indigenous community in Bolivia accepts medical help from a US-backed organization only to discover it is secretly sterilizing their women. The film follows their struggle to understand and resist this violation.

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What happens

Blood of the Condor (Quechua: Yawar Mallku, Spanish: Sangre de cóndor) is a 1969 Bolivian docudrama film co-written and directed by Jorge Sanjinés and starring Marcelino Yanahuaya. The film tells the story of an indigenous Bolivian community receiving medical care from the Peace Corps-like United States-backed agency Cuerpo del Progreso ("Progress Corps") which is secretly sterilising local women. The story, which was based on accounts by the indigenous people to the filmmaker, provoked an outrage in the public which led to a government investigation about the Peace Corps' actions in Bolivia, which ended in the expulsion of the agency from the country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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