The High Plain – American Indian Film Gathering

Film Details

Title: The High Plain
Year: 1944
Duration: 0:19:36
Director: Jules Bucher
Writer: Miriam Bucher
Producer: Julien Bryan
Narrator: Tom Kraber
Sponsor: Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Establishing Shot: Opens with a title superimposed over drawn topographical map of South America. Title reads: “The land of Bolivia rises from tropical jungle to a great high plateau, where the Aymara Indians lived long centuries before the Incas. On this plain their descendants still till the soil.” First live action shot is a 180 degree panorama of the wide, flat Altiplano plateau alluded to in title
Major Themes: Julien Bryan portrait of the highlands of Bolivia and the descendents of the ancient Aymara Indians who live “on the very rooftop of the Western world” (1944). Aymara life and work on Petaca Hacienda near Lake Titicaca, focusing on agricultural and religious practices of Aymara people, and including relationships between Aymara and patron of the hacienda.
Native Languages Spoken: None

Tribes: Aymara