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Adriano
Zecca
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POPRAD
FILM FESTIVAL
L'ELDORADO
DI GHIACCIO
The Ice Eldorado
SWITZERLAND
2000, 28', col., video
Director: Adriano Zecca
Screenplay: Adriano Zecca
Cameraman: Adriano Zecca
Editing: Gian Franco Poletto
Sound: Eloy Zecca
Production: Federico Jolly, Televisione Svizzera Italiana
Distribution: Televisione Svizzera Italiana
On
the high mountains of Perù, at the foot of the imposing Amanea
glacier lies the Rinconada gold mine, at an altitude of 5.400
meters. In order to extract the precious metal, men, women and
children live and work night and day in this dreadful glacier
under the harshest conditions. Bound by a verbal contract, the
miners are exposed to all the risks without receiving any economic
guarantee. None of them can escape the remnants of a feudal system
called "cachorreo'. Born from nothing, Rinconada is a huge shantytown
of 30, 000 penniless wretches. It doesen't appear on any map and
is still not recognised by the government.
DIRECTOR
Adriano Zecca, photographer and film-maker, has been dealing
with Third World cultures for thirty years. He has travelled and
lived for long time in many countries in Africa, Eastern Asia
and South America. In the last five years he has made in coproduction
with TSI several important social and antropological documentaries
on some of the least known regions on earth such as Laos, Birmania,
Mongolia, Perù and Bolivia.
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