Cholo

Cholo (1972)

The story of Hugo, a young Andean Peruvian man who begins to question his own roots and future after a trip across Europe, full of culture and knowledge without prejudices, opens his mind. Starring the real Hugo Sotil, one of the best and most successful Peruvian soccer players of the 70's, known as "El Cholo".

Date of release
1972-05-18
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 35m
Director
Bernardo Batievsky

Casting

Interesting facts

Cholo is a Peruvian film from 1972 directed by Bernardo Batievsky that tells the story of the Peruvian football player Hugo Sotil.

Production

After surviving a heart attack in the early 1970s, Batievsky began writing and later directing a film about football starring the successful football player Hugo Sotil. The film was released on May 18, 1972 in fifteen theaters in Lima. A week after its release, the director had the film removed from the billboard after receiving negative reviews.

The music was in charge of the Peruvian group El Polen.

Andrea Franco Batievsky, the director's granddaughter, oversaw the restoration process of Cholo and Mirage at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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