71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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La boca del lobo / The Wolve's Mouth

Francisco J. Lombardi
Peru - Spain
Synopsis

Forces of law and order take control of Chuspi, a small village in the "emergency zone", devastated by the revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso. With neither strategy nor a sufficient command, Vitín Luna (the principal character of the film), and his colleagues, must confront an invisible army which appears to be stornger than them. The arrival of officer Iván Roca changes everything. He is strict in discipline and almost brutal in punishment and shows himself to be a man capable of fighting the revolutionaries until their annihialation.

Vitín sees Roca as a model officer, however, his methods are becoming more and more violent and enrestrained. Exasperated by the enemy's persistance, Roca accuses the whole population of the village basing himself on unfounded suspicions and mistaken interpretations. In view of the terrible events which are becoming a habit, Vitín has to choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

The Wolve's Mouth is a feature film wich offers a view of the anti-revolutionary flight and its excesses; a study about that of which man is capable when he feels isolated in a violent climate, urged on by solitude and death.


Director
Francisco J. Lombardi (Peru)
Running Time
122 m.
Country
Peru - Spain
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