Augusto Tamayo San Román

The documentary describes and narrates the Chilean War of Independence, including the battles of Chacabuco and Maipú, in which General San Martín played a prominent role as the campaign's leader. Meanwhile, in Peru, Viceroy Pezuela attempted to organize a counterattack against the victorious Chilean patriot forces. After his forces were defeated, he focused on containing the patriots in Upper Peru and launched attacks against Argentine forces in Salta. However, as a consequence of the loss of Chile, he began to lose prestige among the Spanish officers due to the series of defeats he suffered.

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Documentary.

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Documentary.

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Documentary.

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Documentary.

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The Huánuco Rebellion of 1812 was the second major uprising of the inhabitants of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the long struggle for independence. The Huánuco Rebellion is both unique and representative, as it resulted from the alliance and shared commitment of Creole, mestizo, and indigenous groups in their common goal of achieving freedom.

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Francisco Antonio de Zela y Arizaga is notable for proclaiming the first cry for independence in Peruvian territory, in the city of Tacna, on June 20, 1811. For this reason, he is considered a hero of Peruvian independence. Zela died in the Chagres prison in Panama in 1821. It is significant and beautifully symbolic that the first Peruvian leader to rise up against European power over the inhabitants of America died in the same year that marked the beginning of its decline and eventual dissolution. His efforts would henceforth be considered the first to point the way to the independence for which the people of Peru would fight and ultimately achieve. A work by Augusto Tamayo.

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The Vigil is a thriller film that tells the story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.

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The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.

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A mestizo (mixed race) Spanish and Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate.

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In 1992, on a marginalized street of Lima (Peru), two teenagers - Gregorio, and Juliana struggle to find a substitute or an alternative to the terrorism movement which surrounds them.

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Short film directed by Augusto Tamayo, restored by Emilio Moscoso with the support of the Audiovisual Direction, Phonography and New Media - DAFO. Women of different ages meet in the bathroom of a nightclub and make intimate revelations.

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After the nuclear holocaust, one man rises from the ashes to become the leader of a ragged gang of survivors. They soon discover that their greatest challenge is yet to come; they must fight a battle for the ages against the evil minions of The Bishop.

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The year is 2058, in Kansas City. The world has suffered a nuclear disaster. Mutants live in the cities, confined to reservations. Everyone covets a mineral called zirconium. Fragments of this film were used in "Ultra Warrior," along with fragments from other films, forming a very peculiar conglomeration, edited by Kevin Tent, who would later win an Oscar for editing.

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A minibus makes its last run at night, six characters confront their values ​​and pettiness and the death of one of them.

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The story of a trapeze artist who doesn't want to come down.

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Through engravings of the city of Lima, the beauty and uniqueness of the city described by foreign travelers during the 19th century are shown.

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The film revolves around the transgressive behaviors of young people from Lima who suffer the contamination of the social environment in the hope of seeing the achievement of their small ambitions. Three episodes.

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Rehearsals by the Goethe group from Arequipa, preparing a baroque music concert in a church in the white city.

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Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.

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About the preparation and consumption of chicha, an ancestral drink made from corn, in a picantería in Arequipa.

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On the meaning of religious enclosure in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Santa Catalina convent in the city of Arequipa.

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A view of the old Lima cemetery shows workers at their jobs and visitors venerating the graves of their loved ones.

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Fishing businessman Luis Barletto is in trouble with the nationalist government, mysterious vehicles follow him. Meanwhile in Chaclacayo a gardener looks after his country house. His son José is a poor, shy and ugly boy who has lived an existence full of humiliation. On January 1, 1972, Barletto went to rest at his home in Chaclacayo. But he finds José armed with a pistol and a bloody ritual begins.

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Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.

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