The Soldier's Lagoon (2024)
- Original title
- La Laguna del Soldado
- Directed by
- Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
- Country
- Colombia, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rated
- MA 15+
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary is about a lake high in the Andes mountains in Colombia. The remains of over 200 soldiers from Simón Bolívar's 1819 march across the Andes are still found there. The film looks at this place and what it means.
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What happens
The Soldier's Lagoon (Spanish: La Laguna del Soldado) is a Canadian-Colombian documentary film, directed by Pablo Álvarez Mesa and released in 2024. The film profiles a lake high in the Andes mountains in Colombia, where the bodies of over 200 soldiers who died during Simón Bolívar's 1819 march across the Andes are still found. The film premiered in March 2024 at the Cinéma du Réel festival in France, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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