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The City and the dogs
- Title
- The City and the dogs [videorecording] / Producciones Inca Films S.A. ; produced by Francisco J. Lombardi.
- Publication
- New York : Kino, 1985.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- The setting of this allegorical film is a Peruvian military school where the cadets, mirroring their adult counterparts, form a secret junta with its own hierarchy and oppression. A cadet, nicknamed "The Slave" is killed for revealing the name of a student guilty of stealing the answers to an examination. His murder causes a crisis of conscience in his friend, "The Poet," who decides to inform school officals but risks the wrath of the cadets' cruel enforcer, "Jaguar."
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Note
- In Spanish with English subtitles.
- Based on the novel, The Time of the hero by Mario Vargas Llosa.
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, Francisco J. Lombardi; screenplay, José Watanabe; photography, Pili Flores Guerra.
- Performer (note)
- Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Alvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa, Eduardo Adrianzen.
- Title
- The City and the dogs [videorecording] / Producciones Inca Films S.A. ; produced by Francisco J. Lombardi.
- Imprint
- New York : Kino, 1985.
- Credits
- Producer, director, Francisco J. Lombardi; screenplay, José Watanabe; photography, Pili Flores Guerra.
- Cast
- Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Alvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa, Eduardo Adrianzen.
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- Added Author
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- Ciudad y los perros. English.Lombardi, Francisco, 1949-
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 1687 C