Federico García Hurtado

Directing

Federico García Hurtado

Born — Died

1937-09-29 — 2020-10-23

Place of birth

Cuzco, Peru

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

Federico García Hurtado (Septermber 1937- 23 October 2020) was a Peruvian filmmaker and writer. He directed 13 films and is considered a representative of Latin American cinema with social commentary.​

Known for

Kuntur Wachana poster
5.5

Kuntur Wachana is a docudrama in which Garcia re-created the 1950s uprising of the Huaran hacienda campesinos against the hacendados, which led to the assassination of two union organizers. The film then follows the travails of the peasants until 1969, when the Huaran Cooperative was formed.

Kuntur Wachana

1977

El forastero poster
6.0

A stranger arrives in the country from a distant galaxy. He lands somewhere in the Andes near the small town of Paucartambo in Cusco. He comes from an annihilated planet and has been sent in search of a habitable world where his civilization can settle. When the stranger enters into contact with the village people he gradually regains his human condition. He finds love and sex with a prostitute, who is waiting for miracle, he finds a strange mixture of goodness and greed in the village mayor and his family and with the indigenous poet and shaman he grows closer to the bounty, beauty and unfathomable mystery of nature.

El forastero

2002

El Amauta poster
NR

Biopic about the life of Jose Carlos Mariategui.

El Amauta

1999

Melgar, el poeta insurgente poster
8.0

The life and legend of Arequipa poet Mariano Melgar (1791-1815), hero of the insurrection led by José Angulo and chief Mateo Pumacahua in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1815.

Melgar, el poeta insurgente

1982

El socio de Dios poster
7.0

Julio César Arana, a rubber baron in the Putumayo region, who was characterized by being a callous, heartless, and debased personality, allies himself with foreign companies, to exploit rubber reserves in the Peruvian Amazon region. He stops at nothing, not even the extermination of indigenous tribes. Thus, the so-called crimes of Putumayo occur; the Amazonian communities rebel and resist.

El socio de Dios

1986

No artwork available
NR

A person with an artistic vocation is forced to abandon it to work as a bureaucrat due to pressure from their family.

El Festín

1978

Film credits

Behind the camera

Kuntur Wachana poster
5.5

Kuntur Wachana is a docudrama in which Garcia re-created the 1950s uprising of the Huaran hacienda campesinos against the hacendados, which led to the assassination of two union organizers. The film then follows the travails of the peasants until 1969, when the Huaran Cooperative was formed.

Kuntur Wachana

1977

Kuntur Wachana poster
5.5

Kuntur Wachana is a docudrama in which Garcia re-created the 1950s uprising of the Huaran hacienda campesinos against the hacendados, which led to the assassination of two union organizers. The film then follows the travails of the peasants until 1969, when the Huaran Cooperative was formed.

Kuntur Wachana

1977

El forastero poster
6.0

A stranger arrives in the country from a distant galaxy. He lands somewhere in the Andes near the small town of Paucartambo in Cusco. He comes from an annihilated planet and has been sent in search of a habitable world where his civilization can settle. When the stranger enters into contact with the village people he gradually regains his human condition. He finds love and sex with a prostitute, who is waiting for miracle, he finds a strange mixture of goodness and greed in the village mayor and his family and with the indigenous poet and shaman he grows closer to the bounty, beauty and unfathomable mystery of nature.

El forastero

2002

El forastero poster
6.0

A stranger arrives in the country from a distant galaxy. He lands somewhere in the Andes near the small town of Paucartambo in Cusco. He comes from an annihilated planet and has been sent in search of a habitable world where his civilization can settle. When the stranger enters into contact with the village people he gradually regains his human condition. He finds love and sex with a prostitute, who is waiting for miracle, he finds a strange mixture of goodness and greed in the village mayor and his family and with the indigenous poet and shaman he grows closer to the bounty, beauty and unfathomable mystery of nature.

El forastero

2002

El Amauta poster
NR

Biopic about the life of Jose Carlos Mariategui.

El Amauta

1999

El Amauta poster
NR

Biopic about the life of Jose Carlos Mariategui.

El Amauta

1999

Melgar, el poeta insurgente poster
8.0

The life and legend of Arequipa poet Mariano Melgar (1791-1815), hero of the insurrection led by José Angulo and chief Mateo Pumacahua in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1815.

Melgar, el poeta insurgente

1982

Melgar, el poeta insurgente poster
8.0

The life and legend of Arequipa poet Mariano Melgar (1791-1815), hero of the insurrection led by José Angulo and chief Mateo Pumacahua in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1815.

Melgar, el poeta insurgente

1982

El socio de Dios poster
7.0

Julio César Arana, a rubber baron in the Putumayo region, who was characterized by being a callous, heartless, and debased personality, allies himself with foreign companies, to exploit rubber reserves in the Peruvian Amazon region. He stops at nothing, not even the extermination of indigenous tribes. Thus, the so-called crimes of Putumayo occur; the Amazonian communities rebel and resist.

El socio de Dios

1986

No artwork available
NR

A person with an artistic vocation is forced to abandon it to work as a bureaucrat due to pressure from their family.

El Festín

1978

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about Daniel Estrada Pérez.

Qosqoruna

2006

Alfredo Torero: Cuatro Estaciones de un Hombre Total poster
NR

Documentary.

Alfredo Torero: Cuatro Estaciones de un Hombre Total

2011

No artwork available
NR

Documentary.

Kausachún Perú

1972

Entangling Shadows poster
5.8

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.

Entangling Shadows

1998

La manzanita del diablo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La manzanita del diablo

1990

Huando poster
NR

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

Huando

1975

Laulico poster
8.0

In Fuerabamba, according to the myth, the land dried up since, in ancient times, the world of the community was captured by the Iberian conquerors and taken prisoner in the Pamparqui ranch. For this reason, the Fuerabambinos lost their status as farmers and became rustlers. During all the stages of the hacienda to free the prisoner god and recover their status as farmers, they were always rejected. Laúlico, head of the community, makes decisions at the hacienda but then finds himself and his people once again.

Laulico

1979

Laulico poster
8.0

In Fuerabamba, according to the myth, the land dried up since, in ancient times, the world of the community was captured by the Iberian conquerors and taken prisoner in the Pamparqui ranch. For this reason, the Fuerabambinos lost their status as farmers and became rustlers. During all the stages of the hacienda to free the prisoner god and recover their status as farmers, they were always rejected. Laúlico, head of the community, makes decisions at the hacienda but then finds himself and his people once again.

Laulico

1979

No artwork available
NR

A meeting of two dead men in the afterlife, one rich and the other poor. The rich man sheds his finery to save himself from hell but sinks into it, while the poor man floats.

Parábola del Mar Inevitable

1980

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

Huando, tierra sin patrones

1971

La Lengua de los Zorros poster
NR

A young man from Lima arrives as a tourist in a town in Huaraz. His intention is to climb the Alpamayo mountain. The community is shaken by violence, both from terrorism and its repressive aftermath. As a way of explaining this difficult situation, the inhabitants of the place appeal to their myths, one of which is that of the pisbacos, white men who extract human fat to exploit it outside the country. These mythological killers seek to take the vital and cultural wealth of the Andes to the big city. After being pursued, the truth is revealed and the young man learns to respect the way of life and the culture of the Andean environment.

La Lengua de los Zorros

1992

No artwork available
NR

Documentary.

Frontón: Historia de una Masacre

—

No artwork available
NR

The film, after showing some articles from the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, promulgated in Algiers in 1974, presents Nicolás Maduro at an OAS session held in Panama, responding to attacks from the United States Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza Rice.

Venezuela País en Trance

2013

Tupac Amaru poster
6.8

A painful true story of a revolutionary Andian warrior whose strength and devotion to his people influenced many in Latin America, Africa and the West.

Tupac Amaru

1984

Tupac Amaru poster
6.8

A painful true story of a revolutionary Andian warrior whose strength and devotion to his people influenced many in Latin America, Africa and the West.

Tupac Amaru

1984

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain poster
NR

Documentary about the force of the scissors dance, its historical importance and cultural resistance through the body and its movements.

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain

2002

El Caso Huayanay: Testimonio de Parte poster
NR

Fictional reconstruction of the famous “Huayanay Case” that highlighted the age-old opposition between the official country and the real country.

El Caso Huayanay: Testimonio de Parte

1980

No artwork available
NR

The life and work of the writer and thinker Jose Carlos Mariátegui, a great defender of the freedoms of Peruvian society.

La yunta brava

2000