Kuntur Wachana is a docudrama in which Garcia re-created the 1950s uprising of the Huaran hacienda campesinos against the hacendados, which led to the assassination of two union organizers. The film then follows the travails of the peasants until 1969, when the Huaran Cooperative was formed.
Shows the abject poverty and miserable life style still endured by Peruvian peasant farmers, and notes how the changes to the land tenure system brought about by the 1968 revolution have failed to bring any change in the deplorable living standards of the Peruvian peasant farmer
Illustrates the life of Saturnino Huillca, a peasant union leader, and the motivations that lead the Quechua peasantry to undertake the struggle for their social activists. The events that came to constitute a force of pressure that moved the country and made it see the importance of carrying out...
