The beginnings of Peruvian political cinema and the Film Group Liberación Sin Rodeos (1970-1975)

Abstract

The Peruvian cinematographic field during the Revolutionary Government of General Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975) is considered the seed of current Peruvian cinema. In the research on the production of that period, there are two major gaps: on the one hand, the production made from within the government, whether for propaganda, social or artistic purposes, is unknown, and on the other hand, the presence of a Peruvian political cinema, which began to develop from within the production of the government, is invisible.
Carlos Ferrand and the Film Group Liberación Sin Rodeos inaugurated political cinema in the country and, in just a few years of production, produced an important corpus of productions, many of which are still lost. Through interviews with their members and analysis of their restored films, we present this important group of filmmakers and their vision of Peru in the 1970s, while the government was working on the great change in the country's recent history.