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The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War-- "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

Top Cast

  • Magali Arreola

    Magali Arreola

  • Yazmín Chávez

    Yazmín Chávez

  • Isela Cruz

    Isela Cruz

  • Denisse del Río

    Denisse del Río

  • Sophina James

    Sophina James

  • Amanda Louis

    Amanda Louis

  • Gabriela Mayorga

    Gabriela Mayorga

  • Rebeca Mayorga

    Rebeca Mayorga

  • Isabela Montes

    Isabela Montes

Overview

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War-- "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

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