The whispers of the wind
β 9 Β· 1995 Β· 23m Β· Documentary
A documentary fiction in the form of a diptych, about solitude, nostalgia and waiting. On the high plateaux of the Andes in Venezuela, the seventy-year-old mule-driver Saturnino has only one friend, his donkey Turmero. Filomena, seventy eight years old, is waiting against for the return of her husband.
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