Los gigantes no existen
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Title / Título (Original)
Los gigantes no existen
Title
Giants Don't Exist
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Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2017
Language / Idioma
Spanish / español
Indigenous / indígena
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Sin Un Duro (Guatemala)
Atlantia (Guatemala)
Iconica (Guatemala)
Description / Descripción
Guatemala, años 80. Los peores días de la guerra civil. Andrés tiene 9 años. Vive con Pedro González, uno de los hombres que mataron a todas las mujeres y niños de su aldea. Andrés ha sobrevivido, pero tiene miedo. La esposa de Pedro, María, también tiene miedo, miedo de salir de casa, miedo de perder a Andrés, a quien considera "su nuevo hijo"… hasta Pedro tiene miedo, miedo de sí mismo y de lo que el ejército le obliga a hacer. Andrés quiere huir, pero también quiere quedarse con su nueva familia... hasta que aparece su hermana. (Cineteca)
Guatemala in the 1980s, at the height of the ruthless civil war against the country’s indigenous communities. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he’s scared. Pedro’s wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as «her new son»… even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family… The unexpected arrival of his biological sister will change everything. Based on the true story of Guatemalan activist Jesús Tecú, Chema Rodríguez’s second feature is a harrowing and powerful drama about survival and hope. Teco was one of the few survivors of the Río Negro massacre in 1982, in which 177 women and children died. (Pragda)
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“Los gigantes no existen,” Cinegogía, accessed October 6, 2024, https://cinegogia.omeka.net/items/show/671.