The long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
La Revolución Y La Tierra is a 2019 Peruvian documentary film directed by Gonzalo Benavente Secco about the 1969 Agrarian Reform carried out by the military dictatorship, calling itself the "Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces" and the decades of struggle of the farmers from rural Peru, fighting against persistent discrimination and the lack of respect for their land rights.
