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Baltazar Ushka, The Frozen Time
December 13 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Rating
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- Directors: José Antonio Guayasamín, Igor Guayasamín
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 22 m
- Country: Ecuador
- Company: Fundación Arte Imagen ARIG
Chimborazo, Ecuador. At 6,267 meters high, in one of the world´s highest volcano, the Chimborazo, Baltazar Ushka has been working for more than thirty years now. He works chopping ice out of the glacier, later to be used to cool fruit juices at the popular market in Riobamba, Ecuador. This documentary travels through time in a circular way, to create a life´s portrait of the last Chimborazo Ice Man. It's the second part of the most famous and award-winning documentary in Ecuador: Los Hieleros del Chimborazo. 1980.
