
Cemetery of the Elephants
1974-09-02 · 17 min · Not rated
A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored away as a symbolic object. He goes to find it and unearth it. A return to the lost childhood in which his first creative impulses took root.
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- Armando Robles Godoy
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- Peru
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- Released
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