Two Ports and a Hill

Two Ports and a Hill

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1975

Runtime

0h 11m

Original Title

Dos puertos y un cerro

Director

Mario Handler

Description

After several close calls with death squads, Mario Handler fled Uruguay in 1973 and eventually settled in Venezuela where he lived and continued to make films before returning to Uruguay in recent years. The first film he completed in exile, Dos puertos y un cerro is an essay film about the imbalances of trade. A narrator dispassionately recounts in voice-over a brief summation of Venezuela's situation as a hub port in the establishment of the colonial system in the sixteenth-century.