Carla Ortiz will film a film based on La Chaskañawi at the Oruro Carnival

A new Bolivian film is on the horizon will adapt the historical Bolivian novel, La Chaskañawiwritten by Carlos Medinaceli, which will be starring Carla Ortiz and which is in Bolivia, since the production will shoot on the 18th and 19th, at the Oruro Carnival.

The work recounts the return of the student Adolfo, after completing his law studies in Sucre to his town, San Javier de Chirca, in the district of Cotagaita, Potosí. There begins a classic of love between two social classes, because he falls in love with the Chaskawañi, a young cholita, who would divide the fate of Adolfo, predestined to marry a high-class woman. Carla Ortiz will play Claudina, one of the cholitas who socialize with the Chaskawañi.

the plot of the film, will tell of two periods separated by 100 years in Bolivia. The first story is the adaptation of La Chaskañawi (1947) and takes place in the town of San Javier de Chirca in 1924. The second original story takes place in the city of Oruro in 2023.

Ortiz, who has already visited the Virgen del Socavón to “ask permission” to film this adaptation, said that she is excited, “to be able to be part of this adaptation of the most celebrated classic novel in Bolivian literature by the writer Carlos Medinaceli, which will be brought to the big screen by two masters of Bolivian cinema I love and admire so much: Don Antonio Eguino and Don Paolo Agazzi”. The work that still does not have a premiere date, apart from being shot in Oruro, will also do so in Potosí.