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Featuring:
Domitila de Chungara, Eduardo Galeano
Directed by:
Malena Bystrowicz, Loreley Unamuno
Release Date:
March 4, 2014
Original Title:
Mujeres de la Mina
Alternate Titles:
Women of the Mine
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
Bolivia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 64
Portraits of three women who live and work in the infamous mines of El Cerro Rico in Bolivia. Work inside the mines has been limited to men, while the women are forced to work outside searching for mineral scraps on the side of the mountain. The film highlights the women's strength, determination and resilience in the face of struggle and hardship.
Three women open their privacy to show us their stories of struggle and resistance: Domitila Chungara, one of the first revolutionary women, leads the struggles of miners and women in Bolivia. LucĂa Armijo lives in the Cerro Rico. She takes us inside the mine and tell us her life as a worker, miner leader and single mother of six children. Francisca Gonzalez woman miner, granddaughter, daughter and widow of miners supports her family hammering stone by stone to change the future of her grandchildren.
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