Movies: Jorge Vignati

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of th...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dr...

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas....

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. H...

This 1987 documentary is the only window into an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon, which no camera has ever entered and has been rarely written about....

“The Color of the Sky” is a testimony from those who, from their position as left-wing militants, full of dedication and faith, struggled to change Peruvian society, to conquer its sky. Set during the political events of the late 1970s and early 1980...

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A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru....

It's the first day of school in 1992, and Daniel can't find a way to explain the strange reason why he was late for school. His mild punishment will be to wait for the time change in his schoolyard....

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and...

From the side of the heart, is a documentary that tries to discover the reasons, motivations and individual situations that led numerous people to participate in the Peruvian left in the 1970s, years of the military governments of Juan Velasco Alvara...

The life of peasant from Cuzco Peru who goes to Lima and becomes an attorney, then returns to Cuzco and see how his people is exploited and abused....

A fundamental person for Peruvian cinema, Jorge Vignati Ojeda, tells us about his beginnings in the cinematographic world, in a meaningful interview conducted in his own style: hand-held camera and sequence shot. With him we tour the Plaza de Armas o...

Fiction that narrates the life of a publicist, his performance in an advertising agency and his attempt to write a story about a painter character and he, in turn, imagines him capturing it on a canvas....