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When the Bull Cried

When the Bull Cried

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 31, 2017

Runtime

1h 7m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

90%

Original Title

Cuando el toro lloró

Production Companies

Minds Meet

Director

Karen Vasquez Guadarrama

Description

Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...