''Shunko'' is a 1960 Argentine
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by and starring
Lautaro Murúa. It was written by
Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos (13 June 1917 – 26 April 2005) was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor. ...
and based on
Jorge W. Abalos'
novel of the same name. It won the
Silver Condor Award for Best Film. In a survey of the
100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 16th position.
Synopsis
A teacher (Murúa) educated in the big city is assigned to a rural school in the province of
Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero (, Spanish for ''Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon'') is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 252,192 inhabitants, () making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a sur ...
, where his students are
Quechua speakers. Initially, the
ethnocentric
Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of ...
prejudices of the teacher and his ignorance of the Quechua culture and the children lead him to enter into conflict with his students and to distance himself from them. Little by little it is the teacher who begins to learn from his students, establishing a relationship of respect and mutual learning.
Cast
*
Lautaro Murúa
*
Raúl del Valle
*
Fanny Olivera
*
Orlando Sacha
*
Gabriela Schóo
*
Ángel Greco
*
Graciela Rueda
*
Marta Roldán
*
Oscar Llompart
* Raúl Parini
* Ramón del Valle García
* Guillermina Rosenstein
* Beatriz Abre
* Angélica Monti
References
External links
*
1960 films
1960s Spanish-language films
Argentine black-and-white films
1960s Argentine films
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