The Peruvian Kuntur Group: A Marxist-Indigenist filmmaking practice

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.