Altiplano (2009)

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109 min - Drama - 20 August 2010 (USA)

6.6

Ratings: 6.6/10 from 385 users
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A former war photographer and her physician husband are caught up in a riot when locals in an Andean village vent their unhappiness with contamination from a nearby mine.

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Magaly Solier	...	Saturnina
	Jasmin Tabatabai	...	Grace
	Olivier Gourmet	...	Max
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Arturo Anacarino Zarate	...	Orlando
	Malku Choquehuillca	...	Malku
	Edgar Condori	...	Nilo / Omar (as Edgar Alcides Condori)
	Behi Djanati Atai	...	Sami
	Kian Khalili	...	Reza
	Sonia Loaiza	...	Luz
	Hermelinda Luján	...	Rufina
	Norma Martínez	...	Mercedes
	Andreas Pietschmann	...	Paul
	Antonio Quevedo	...	Un soldat (as Marco Antonio Quevedo)
	Edgar Quispe	...	Ignacio
	Rodolfo Rodríguez	...	Raúl

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Storyline

War photographer Grace, devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the high Andes of Peru. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spill from a local mine. Saturnina, a young woman in Turubamba, loses her fiancé to the contamination. Ignorant of its true source, the villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors, and in the ensuing riot Max is killed. Grace sets out on a journey of mourning to the place of Max's death. Saturnina takes drastic measures to protest against the endless violations towards her people and her land. Grace and Saturnina's destinies merge. ALTIPLANO is a lyrical and probing film about our divided but inextricably linked world. Written by Hannelore Goossens

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