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When the Bull Cried

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Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2017-10-31

Runtime: 67 mins

Director: Karen Vasquez Guadarrama, Bart Goossens

Writer: Karen Vasquez Guadarrama, Bart Goossens

Spoken language: Español

Genres: Documentary

Original title: When the Bull Cried

Production Companies: Minds Meet

Production Countries: Belgium, Bolivia

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