Young Carmen arrives in Lima, dreaming of falling in love and finding happiness. She goes to live with her cousins and aunt, in the elegant Miraflores district. Soon she falls in love with Oscar, but he must leave her to go to the war. After a long time waiting for him to return, she learns he has died. Desperate, she decides to join a convent.
This Traveltalk series short brings us to Lima, Peru where we see a modern city.
Un savant fou travaillant dans la jungle sud-américaine miniaturise ses collègues quand il sent sa mégalomanie menacée.
Le Pérou. Harry Steele, ex-pilote de guerre, fait visiter aux touristes Cuzco, l'ancienne capitale des Incas, attendant une opportunité qui lui permettra de retrouver leur trésor. Elena, une jeune réfugiée roumaine sans papiers se confie à Harry qui prend contact avec le consul roumain, pour profiter de sa venue et s'envoler avec Elena dans l'avion diplomatique. Il atteint ainsi les ruines du temple où est enfoui le trésor, lieu déjà investi par une mission archéologique dirigée par Moorehead...
Italian documentary about Peru.
Kukuli, a young llama herder, leaves her grandparents in the countryside of Cusco to attend the Feast of Mamacha Carmen in the town of Paucartambo.
This adventure chronicles the exploits of an author/explorer on a trip to Peru to hunt for the missing uncle of his pretty young companion. Her archaeologist uncle disappeared while searching for a lost Incan city that he found upon an ancient map. Together the writer and the girl launch an expedition to search for this legendary city. They are guided by another Yankee archaeologist. It is he who swiped the map from the woman's uncle. With their help, he hopes to find the city so he and his gang of thieves can loot it. Along the way they encounter many dangers including, snakes, crocodiles, jaguars, and quicksand. The writer and the niece get their first and warn the Incas living their. The Indians neatly dispatch the evil archaeologist and his band.
During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.
Fu Manchu œuvre toujours pour devenir le maître du monde. Il lève une armée de jeunes femmes qui, d'un simple baiser, peuvent donner la mort. Désireux de venger la mort de son oncle, Carl Jansen part à l'assaut de la cachette de cet être diabolique.
Little boy Henry Clayton Jr. survives a plane crash in the untamed Amazon jungle. However, he's discovered by a tribe of vicious savages who plan on sacrificing him. Meanwhile, Henry's father ventures into the jungle to find the missing lad before it's too late.
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.
Une compagnie de cinéma américaine arrive dans un village d'Indiens au Pérou pour tourner l'histoire de Billy the Kid. Les Indiens sont particulièrement impressionnés par Kansas, le metteur en scène qui agit comme un général au milieu de ses troupes. À la suite d'un incident tragique sur le plateau où un acteur est tué lors d'une cascade, Kansas décide d'abandonner le cinéma et de rester au Pérou avec une femme de la région. Il pense avoir trouvé le paradis, mais il est bientôt appelé à l'aide pour un incident bizarre : les indigènes péruviens "filment" leur propre western avec des "caméras" faites de bâtons, et jouent les scènes violentes sans trucages, car ils ne comprennent pas les simulacres de films.
La marche de ses soldats étant contrariée par de multiples périls, Pizzaro, le conquérant du Pérou, confie à un groupe d'une quarantaine d'hommes – sous la direction de Pedro de Ursua, secondé par don Lope de Aguirre – le soin de descendre le fleuve afin de reconnaître le terrain. Très vite, Aguirre se révolte contre Ursua, qu'il blesse d'un coup de feu. Rejetant l'autorité de l'Espagne, libre et rebelle, Aguirre entraîne alors ses compagnons vers cet Eldorado mythique qui les fait tous rêver depuis si longtemps. Il s'est mis en tête de se tailler un empire autour de la fabuleuse cité d'or et d'y fonder une dynastie…
Documentary about the Velasco regime and the material conditions in Peru prior to the coup d'état in 1968, as well as the Peruvian left wing
Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets.
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of coping with them become visible.
Based on the eponymous novel by Ciro Alegría. An indigenous community living their day-to-day and their relationship with nature. They can be reimagined as hungry dogs.
Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.
Based on real events in Peru, 1963. A team of revolutionary foreigners planned and pulled a heist on the biggest bank in Peru. The loot helped fund the rural revolution in Concepción, Cusco.