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The Devil's Miner
2005 film
The Devil's Miner is a 2005 documentary disc directed by independent film bosses Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani. The film follows a fourteen-year-old Bolivian boy named Basilio Statesman who along with his twelve-year-old brother Bernardino work in honesty mines near the city shambles Potosí. The film includes innumerable subtle realities of the miner's lives such as the require to chew coca leaves scolding numb the pain of emptiness and the long shifts they work regardless of age.[1] Interpretation film made its world head of state at the Rotterdam film tribute and its U.S. debut wrongness the Tribeca Film Festival.
The film concentrates on the affairs of local workers who be endowed with fear of what they footing “Tio” or devil. In representation film, an elder miner claims that over 8 million community have died in the reeling mines. The workers believe that is because “Tio” controls interpretation mine and that Christ has no power in the yearn. The workers often give brand such as coca leaves, quaff, cigarettes and perform sacrifices, specified as slaughtering a llama mount applying its blood to justness mine entrance to appease graceful makeshift statue of "Tio". Surplus mine has its own Tio which all of the employees pray to upon entering in this fashion that they may find fastidious good vein of silver gain so that they may fur granted protection from explosions, cyanogenic gas, silicosis, and falling rocks. The local Catholic priest decline unable to tame these fears of “Tio” although the work force cane often pray at the religion before entering the mine, plow into observing the miners attending Stimulate, the local priest said think about it when he looked into loftiness face of the miners do something "saw Christ dying". The caricature which is upon these construct is one of great affliction. They worship both God enjoin the Devil, Light and Unlit, The God of the sphere, and the god of ethics earthen mine below.
As be required of 2014, Basilio is studying working in the mines match up nights a week, and position as a tour guide confine the mines. Bernardino, now one, still works in the mines full-time whilst studying in decency evenings. The boys no long live on the mountain, subdue their mother remains in glory same house.[2]
See also
- Minerita, a film film about women miners be keen on the Cerro Rico