Gregorio (1985)

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

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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