The Soldier's Lagoon (2024)

Original title

La Laguna del Soldado

Directed by

Pablo Alvarez-Mesa

Genre

documentary

Country

Colombia, Canada

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

MA 15+

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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