Of indigenist cinema to genres such as science fiction or police, Thus the vast route that Bolivian cinematographic productions in less than 120 years have drawn. With the arrival of the first cinematographer in Bolivia, in 1897, and its projections at the Municipal Theater of La Paz, the national adventure in the seventh art begins.
In 1925, after several documentaries, the first Bolivian film is released: Aymara heart, directed by Pedro Sambario. The story is based on the play La Huerta, by author Ángel Salas. In 1930 it opens Wara Waraa fundamental title of Bolivian silent cinema ..
‘Wara Wara, has the work of the voice of Antonio Díaz Villamil’s voice
Between 1933 and 1936 several productions with themes based on the Chaco War were filmed. Some of them were Chaco War or Green Hell by Luis Bazoberry, and Juan Peñaranda’s Chaco campaign.
In 1948, the company Emelco rolls the documentary At the foot of the Illimani, considered by many as the first sound feature film of Bolivian cinema. A year later, Alberto Perrín Pando, in cooperation with Jorge Ruiz and Augusto Rocafilms on the island of the sun the short film where an empire was born, color made in color.
Years later, in 1958, Jorge Ruiz films the slope, That despite being a fictional story, it has documentary cinema fragments. In 1966, the director Jorge Sanjinés and the production of the Bolivian Cinematographic Institute (ICB) Plasman ukamau, iNicando an extensive legacy in the industry.
Chuquiago movie scene
In 1977, Antonio Eguino Filma and premieres Chuquiagoa film that in several stories tells four different realities of the city of La Paz. In 1982, Paolo Agazzi premieres my partnera warm film that runs through Bolivian diversity through the experiences of a truck driver in the west of the country (David Santalla) next to his little assistant from the East (Gerardo Suárez).
MY PARTNER SCENES
During the 80s, Eguino with bitter sea, agazzi with The Cartagena brothers and Sanjinés with The clandestine nation They would continue to enrich the national film legacy.
The Equal The Movie Scene
The 90s and the new millennium
With the change of decade, in addition to the premiere of the egalitarians (1991), new directors such as Juan Carlos Valdivia and Marcos Loayza. Both, in 1995, present their raw operas: Jonah and the pink whale, and a matter of faith. In 1998, Agazzi presents another of his classics: the day that silence died, and before the change of the century, 1999, Mauricio Calderón premieres the first Bolivian science fiction film The Lake Triangle.
Scenes of the movie Jonah and the pink whale
In 2003, the filmmaker Cruceño Rodrigo Bellot iRrumpe with sexual dependence, a production that was first worked in digital and then passed to the celluloid. A year later, Agazzi ventures into the police genre with the robbery, and then in comedy, in 2005, with Sena Quina.
That same year, Valdivia premieres American Visa, which becomes the first national film to premiere abroad (Mexico), and in 2006 Bellott presents her second job Who killed the white flame? A fun “Road Movie”.
Movie scene the day the silence died
The contemporary Bolivian cinema reached a new threshold in 2018 with wall, directed by Gory Patiño. It was the first national film to reach great chains. His crude portrait of child traffic moved the public and generated broad social debate.
Film note
Organisms. The Bolivian Cinematographic Institute (ICB) and the National Cinema Council (CONACINE)
Actors. Jorge Ortiz, David Mondaca, Elías Serrano, Milton Cortez, Carla Ortiz, Denisse Arancibia
Important figures. Alberto Villalpando and Cergio Prudencio are two prominent film music composers
