The devil's miner
(DVD)

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Published
New York, NY : First Run Features/Icarus Films, 2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : col., sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Spanish
UPC
720229912136

Notes

General Note
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2005.
General Note
Originally boxed as a set of 7 discs.
General Note
Human Rights Watch boxed set
General Note
Originally boxed as a set of 7 discs.
Creation/Production Credits
Kief Davidson, film editor; Richard Ladkani, cinematographer.
Participants/Performers
Basilio Vargas, Bernardino Vargas.
Description
The story of 14 year-old Basilio Vargas and his 12 year-old brother Bernardino as they work in the sixteenth century Bolivian silver mines of Cerro Rico (Potosí). Cerro Rico miners believe that Satan, as represented by hundreds of statues constructed in the mines, determines whether they live or die there.
System Details
DVD, NTSC, Widescreen presentation.
Language
In Spanish with English subtitles.

Subjects

LC Subjects
Child labor -- Bolivia -- Potosí.
Civil rights.
Documentary films.
Human rights.
Indians of South America -- Bolivia -- Economic conditions.
Indians of South America -- Employment -- Bolivia.
Potosí (Bolivia) -- Social conditions.
Silver miners -- Bolivia -- Potosí -- Social conditions.
Silver mines and mining -- Bolivia -- Potosí.
Vargas, Basilio.
Vargas, Bernardino.

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