| Release Date: | Oct 2010 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | History |
| Awards: | 7 wins & 4 nominations |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
| Cast: | Gael GarcÃa Bernal (Sebastián) Luis Tosar (Costa) Karra Elejalde (Cristóbal Colón) Juan Carlos Aduviri (Daniel / Hatuey) Raúl Arévalo (Juan / Antonio de Montesinos) Cassandra Ciangherotti (Maria) Carlos Santos (Alberto / Bartolomé de las Casas) Vicente Romero () Milena Soliz (Belen) Pau Cólera () Sonia Ovando (Ona / Sonia) Dani Currás () Luis Bredow (Jefe de Policia) Najwa Nimri (Actriz (uncredited)) Jorge Ortiz (Prefecto (uncredited)) |
Spanish director Sebastian, his producer and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement...
