Cinema
Tinku, el encuentro
Juan Miranda · 1985
Synopsis
During a stay in northern Potosí, a North American couple adopts a little boy, who grows up far from his own people, in a completely different culture. Once grown, he decides to return to his native country. There he meets a young woman from Santa Cruz, with whom a love story begins, and the two set out on the roads, across the different regions of Bolivia. Along the way, he rediscovers the culture of his ancestors, beginning with the charango, whose sound draws him.
Context
Produced by Panamerica Films from a story by María Luisa Ovando, the film was written by Rolando Chavarría and Miguel Bustos and photographed by Julio Lencina; it runs ninety-seven minutes, shot in colour on thirty-five millimetre. The music brings together Alberto Villalpando, Charles Suárez, Ernesto Cavour and the groups Los Payas and Los Taquipayas. Marynes Payno, Cristian Vélez Ocampo and John Dinn play the leading roles. Its author moves into directing here after twenty years behind other people's cameras.
Who it is for
In Spanish, with no French version. A sentimental road film, in which the music of the country takes up as much room as the plot.
Prizes and reception
The first feature-length fiction film by its author, who made a second one in 1990, on the Santa Cruz uprising of 1876.
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