Samichay

Samichay (2020)

The highest peaks of the mountains rage rise above the clouds. The high mountains rage of the mountains rise above the clouds. Sometimes they seem to merge with the sky. There is no god and neither there is devil. We are in the heights of the Peruvian Andes, more than 5000 meters above sea level, where Celestino a peasant hermit undertakes a healing journey with his cow Samichay, from the loneliness and height of the Andes to the chaos of urbanization and villages.

Date de sortie
2020-08-21
Durée
1 h 26 min
Genres
Drame
Réalisateur
Mauricio Franco Tosso

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Tourné à : Quispicanchi et Canchis

Samichay, In Search of Happiness is a 2019 Quechua-language Peruvian black-and-white drama film written and directed by Mauricio Franco Tosso, spoken in Cuzco Quechua and premiered at the Lima Film Festival, about the journey of a peasant quechua with his cow called Samichay in the Andes of Peru. It was awarded at film festivals in Peru, Spain and Chile. The film had its commercial premiere in Peruvian theaters on August 4, 2022.

Production

The director Mauricio Franco Tosso, born in Lima in 1978 and with family in Huancayo, had already shot documentaries and short films where Dutch, where he had seen Dutch, German and other foreigners talking with people in Quechua, while he did not know it.

Samichay, In Search of Happiness is the first feature film by director Mauricio Franco Tosso. It was shot in the provinces of Quispicanchi (Palquella, district of Marcapata) and Canchis in the department of Cusco at heights of more than 4000 meters.

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