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Gregorio (1985)

Gregorio poster
Directed by
Fernando Espinoza Bernal, Alejandro Legaspi, Stefan Kaspar
Genre
drama film
Country
Peru
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Quechua boy named Gregorio moves with his family from a small Andean village to the chaotic city of Lima. He struggles with the cultural clash between his peaceful home and the violent urban environment around him.

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What happens

Gregorio is a 1985 Peruvian drama film produced by Grupo Chaski, which was founded in 1982 by Alejandro Legaspi, Stefan Kaspar, Fernando Espinoza, Fernando Barreto and María Barea. Marino León de la Torre stars as Gregorio, a Quechua boy who migrates with his family from a small village in the Andes to the capital of Lima, where he experiences the cultural clash between the Andean world and the chaotic and violent urban world. In 2019, the restoration of the films Gregorio and Juliana by Guarango was announced, and their subsequent re-release at the Lima Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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