''The Green Wall'' ( es, La muralla verde) is a 1970 Peruvian
drama film directed by
Armando Robles Godoy.
Robles Godoy also wrote the screenplay based on his short story by the same title. The film won the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1970 and was selected as the Peruvian entry for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...
at the
42nd Academy Awards
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. Awards were presented by seventeen "Friends of Oscar": Bob Hope, John ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee. After being released in the United States,
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
named it the 5th best film of 1972.
Cast
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Julio Alemán as Mario
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Sandra Riva as Delba
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Raúl Martin (aka)
Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa is an Argentinean-French neurobiologist and neuroethologist (born September 1962), member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, and the ...
as Rómulo
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Lorena Duval as Madre de Delba
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Enrique Victoria as Padre de Delba
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Jorge Montoro as Jefe de tierras de montaña
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Juan Bautista Font as Director de colonización
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Escolástico Dávila as Escolástico
See also
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List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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References
External links
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* with English subtitles
1970 films
Peruvian drama films
1970 romantic drama films
1970s Peruvian films
Films directed by Armando Robles Godoy
Nonlinear narrative films
1970s Spanish-language films
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