The Civilizers – Germans in Guatemala
Los Civilizadores - Alemanes en Guatemala
Watch the civilizers – germans in guatemala on Soap2day. For more than a century, Guatemala has been home to a small yet highly influential German community. Its prosperity began with the coffee boom and has continued, almost uninterrupted, to the present day. Convinced of belonging to a superior culture, its members sought to impose their model of civilization on Guatemala. Elder coffee barons present faded photographs, and through their stories, the history of colonization unfolds. But the film shifts its gaze toward the other, toward the Indigenous people who labor on the plantations. The film portrays several generations of families and, without commentary, presents twentieth-century attitudes that time has relativized but not changed. A journey through questions of power, identity, and civilization. Based on years of extensive research, it offers a new analysis of colonialism and its destructive consequences in Guatemala and Latin America.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Guatemala, Germany
- Director: Uli Stelzner
- Cast: Julio Achilá, Esteban Caal, Felipe Caal, Comunidades de Población en Resistencia (CPR), Vicente Cruz, Julio Delgado, Jacobo Santiago Contreras, Familia Droege, Mathilde Dieseldorff-Quirin, Fritz García-Gallon, Lily de Heinemann, Manfred Krarz, Inge Schleehauf, Carlos Quirin, Rev. Marco Tulio Recinos, Herbert Seibert, Arne Sapper, Miguel Bareda, Juan Gehring, German Cuervo, Cesar Figueroa,
