Ukamau ("And so it is!"[1] in Aymara language) is a 1966 black-and-white film directed by Jorge Sanjinés.

Ukamau
Directed byJorge Sanjinés
Written byJorge Sanjinés
Oscar Soria
Produced byNicanor Jordán Castedo
StarringVicente Veneros Salinas
Benedicta Mendoza Huanca
Néstor Cárdenas
Elsa Antequera
Music byAlberto Villalpando
Production
company
I.C.B. (Instituto Cinematográfico Boliviano)
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryBolivia
LanguagesAymara, Spanish

Synopsis

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Sabina (an amerindian woman) was raped by Rosendo Ramos (a mestizo man) and her husband Andrés Mayta wants revenge.

A native man goes elsewhere to sell his products. While he is away, his wife is raped. When he comes back, his wife tells him who the culprit is before she dies.[2] He begins to look for opportunities to take revenge. Finally, the guilty man goes on a journey alone. The man whose wife was murdered goes after him.

The film presents sections on the social problems of the native people.[3]

Bibliography

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  • Movies featuring the Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia - "UKAMAU ¡Así Es! (And So It Is)", Nativeamericanfilms (in Spanish), Access date: 13 May 2022
  • José Sánchez H.: The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, Lanham (Maryland) / London 1999. S. 82. ISBN 978-1-85566-106-6
  • Jorge Sanjinés, Oscar Zambrano: Kino für das Volk – die bolivianische Erfahrung. In: Peter B. Schumann (Hrsg.): Kino und Kampf in Lateinamerika. Zur Theorie und Praxis des politischen Kinos. Carl Hanser Verlag, München 1976, S. 144–167, hier 147f. (in German)
  • Las Banderas de Jorge Sanjinés: Ukamau (1966), Fernando Birri, Nuevo Texto Crítico, Volume 26-27, Number 49-50, 2013/2014, pp. 7–15 (Article) (in Spanish)

References

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  1. ^ Maria Mercedes Zerda Cáceres: Protective factors against pathological aging in the aymara culture – A study with elderly persons on the shore of Titicaca lake in La Paz, Bolivia. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 22 (1), São Paulo (Brasil) 2019, S. 9–32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i1p09-32 (An explanation about this word: "Ukamau")
  2. ^ Ukamau (1966), Allmovies, Synopsis by Dan Pavlides, Access date: 13 May 2022
  3. ^ Director - Jorge Sanjines, Bolivia, Trigon-Film, Access date: 13 May 2022
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