PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Salvador Del Solar, director and screenwriter of Magallanes from the 63rd Sydney Film Festival
Salvador Del Solar talks about his decision to move behind the camera after a successful acting career to portray how Peruvian society struggles to come to terms with Peru’s recent past and the civil conflict that involved Peruvian government, the Quechua indigenous people and the radical organisation Shining Path.
MAGALLANES: Taxi driver Magallanes (Damián Alcázar) struggles to get by, and spends his spare time with his former military superior, a once-feared colonel during the civil conflict, who is now senile. One day Magallanes encounters Celina (Magaly Solier), an Indigenous woman he knew decades before under very different circumstances. He begins following her, eager to help and protect her when he discovers that she is in trouble with nasty loan sharks.