Abstract
While I finish writing this chapter [October 2019], I learn about the enormous commercial success of the recently premiered documentary La Revolución y la tierra [Revolution and Land, Gonzalo Benevente, 2019]. The theme of the film is the agrarian reform decreed in Peru, in 1969, by the government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, head of the military-revolutionary regime between 1968 and 1975. Although Benevente's work was awarded in the last edition of Lima International Film festival, the box-office results have come as a surprise. It has sold over 55,000 tickets in six cities [Lima, Cusco, Chiclayo, Arequipa, Huancayo and Trujillo]during it's first three weeks, and it is already considered the highest-grossing Peruvian documentary in history.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism |
| Editors | Eva Mazierska, Lars Kristensen |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 99-117 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781501348280, 9781501348297 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781501348273, 9781501373848 |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Sept 2020 |