Wara Wara [SEP] director
Wara Wara
Wara Wara is a 1930 Bolivian feature film, directed by José María Velasco Maidana, combining historical drama and romance. The film was described as a "superproduction" by the press at the time.
Preservation.
Long thought to be a lost film, it was rediscovered in 1989, restored, and screened for a new "premiere" in September 2010. It is "the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era".
Plot.
The film is named for the
was its director until 1985, then served as President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005, describes "Corazón Aymara" and "Wara Wara" as part of an "avant-garde intellectual and artistic movement" which promoted the role of indigenous Bolivians in the 1920s and 1930s.
Preservation status.
"Corazón Aymara" is a lost film, as there are no known copies of it in existence; "Wara Wara" is "the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era".
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