Los Civilizadores - Alemanes en Guatemala (1998)

Özet

For more than a century, Guatemala has been home to a small yet highly influential German community. Its prosperity began with the coffee boom and has continued, almost uninterrupted, to the present day. Convinced of belonging to a superior culture, its members sought to impose their model of civilization on Guatemala. Elder coffee barons present faded photographs, and through their stories, the history of colonization unfolds. But the film shifts its gaze toward the other, toward the Indigenous people who labor on the plantations. The film portrays several generations of families and, without commentary, presents twentieth-century attitudes that time has relativized but not changed. A journey through questions of power, identity, and civilization. Based on years of extensive research, it offers a new analysis of colonialism and its destructive consequences in Guatemala and Latin America.

Oyuncular

• Julio Achilá

  Self

• Esteban Caal

  Self

• Felipe Caal

  Self

• Comunidades de Población en Resistencia (CPR)

  Selves

• Vicente Cruz

  Self

• Julio Delgado

  Self

• Jacobo Santiago Contreras

  Self

• Familia Droege

  Selves

• Mathilde Dieseldorff-Quirin

  Self

• Fritz García-Gallon

  Self

• Lily de Heinemann

  Self

• Manfred Krarz

  Self

Ekip

Yönetmen

Uli Stelzner, Thomas Walther

Senaryo

Uli Stelzner, Thomas Walther

Yönetici yapımcı

Simone Stewens

Müzik

Till Mertens, Hans Kolter

Kurgu

Kerstin Preuss