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Secret of the Andes
Directed byAlejandro Azzano
Written byAlejandro Azzano
Bernardo Nante
StarringRoshan Seth
Camilla Belle
David Keith
Nancy Allen
John Rhys-Davies
Jerry Stiller
CinematographyMáximo Munzi
Edited byMiguel Pérez
Music byLuis Enrique Bacalov

Production
companies

Semana Mágica S.A.
Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)

Distributed byDistribution Company (1999, Argentina)
MTI Home Video (VHS, Estados Unidos)

Release date

  • November 14, 1998 (1998-11-14)

Running time

101 minutes
95 minutes
CountriesArgentina
United States
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish

Secret of the Andes (El secreto de los Andes) is a 1998 Argentine-American fantasy adventure film co-written and directed by Alejandro Azzano. It stars Roshan Seth as a powerful shaman, Camilla Belle as a nine-year old young girl with unusual gifts, David Keith as her archaeologist father, Nancy Allen as her mother and John Rhys-Davies as a Catholic priest.[1]

Synopsis[edit]

When Diana's behavior causes her to be suspended from her school in New York City, her mother takes her to join her father, an archaeologist working in a village in the Andes. He is looking for the missing half of the golden disc of Huáscar, which legend says can grant eternal life. Diana meets the local shaman and discovers her own mystical powers.

Cast[edit]

Critical response[edit]

The critical reception was mostly negative in the Argentine press. Adolfo C. Martínez wrote in La Nación that the film "was so short of imagination that does not resist the slightest analysis (...) If its makers though of a movie for children, they err their target...if they though of a movie for older audiences, nobody at an adult age can become captivated by the absurdities shown on screen".[2] Juan Villegas, from the El Amante del Cine magazine wrote that "there was an exciting story to be tell, but they forgot to shoot it".[3]

Accolades[edit]

Secret of the Andes won a silver Remi in the 2000 edition of the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.[4] The movie was also nominated to best film in the 1998 edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[5]

References[edit]

  • ^ Redacción LA NACION (1999-07-15). "Un secreto que interesa poco". La Nación (in Spanish). ISSN 0325-0946. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  • ^ Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2003). Un diccionario de films argentinos II 1996-2002 (in Spanish). Corregidor. p. 220. ISBN 950-05-1525-3.
  • ^ "Contest News: WorldFest Houston Wraps Up Festival". MovieBytes.com - Screenwriting Contests & Markets Online. 17 April 2000. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  • ^ Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata. "36º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata". www.mardelplatafilmfest.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
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