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La Prueba (play)
The Trial () is a 2006 Peruvian drama road movie written and directed by Judith Vélez and starring Jimena Lindo, Gianfranco Brero and Pietro Sibille. The picture premiered in the World Cinema section of the 30th Montreal World Film Festival in August 2006, and, the following year, received both the Calzedonia Prize and the Special Jury Award at Verona’s Schermi d’Amore festival. Plot summary Miranda, a young Lima architect, discovers that the rare blood type of her long-absent father could save her gravely ill brother and therefore sets out across southern Peru to find him. Travelling with hydraulic engineer Saúl, she crosses drought-stricken Andean landscapes, observing rituals that fuse Catholic processions with pre-Hispanic water ceremonies while confronting memories of political violence that fractured her family. Cast * Denisse Arreguí * Mario Bedoya * Eliana Borja * José Borja * Gianfranco Brero * Enrique Casella * Carlos Gonzales * Doris Guillén * Willy Gutiérrez * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Vélez
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her city, Bethulia. With this act, she saves nearby Jerusalem from total destruction. The name Judith (), meaning "praised" or "Jewess", is the feminine form of Judah. The surviving manuscripts of Greek translations appear to contain several historical anachronisms, which is why some Protestant scholars now consider the book ahistorical. Instead, the book is classified as a parable, theological novel, or even the first historical novel. The Roman Catholic Church formerly maintained the book's historicity, assigning its events to the reign of King Manasseh of Judah and that the names were changed in later centuries for an unknown reason. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
