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The Principal Enemy

Jatun auka

1974

In an Andean peasant community long ground down by the abuses of local landowners, a violent act lays bare the utter failure of official justice, and the villagers begin to reckon with who their true enemy is. Jorge Sanjinés's militant indigenous drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Bolivia

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