Alfonso Gumucio

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron was born in La Paz on 31 October 1950. He studied cinema in France, at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and at the University of Vincennes, during a Parisian exile from 1972 to 1978, then worked as an assistant to Jorge Sanjinés and Alain Labrousse and as a screenwriter for Antonio Eguino. He wrote for Luis Espinal's weekly until the latter's assassination, in 1980, and went into exile again. A poet, photographer and historian of his country's cinema, he subsequently had a long career in communication for development.

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• CinemaSeñores generales, señores coronelesAlfonso Gumucio · 1976Cinema