The Soldier's Lagoon

The Soldier's Lagoon
SpanishLa Laguna del Soldado
Directed byPablo Álvarez Mesa
Produced byPablo Álvarez Mesa
CinematographyPablo Álvarez Mesa
Edited byPablo Álvarez Mesa
Music byStephan Schneider
Alex Lane
Pablo Álvarez-Mesa
Release date
Running time
76 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageSpanish

The Soldier's Lagoon (Spanish: La Laguna del Soldado) is a Canadian-Colombian documentary film, directed by Pablo Álvarez Mesa and released in 2024.[1] The film profiles a lake high in the Andes mountains in Colombia, where the bodies of over 200 soldiers who died during Simón Bolívar's 1819 march across the Andes are still found.[2]

The film premiered in March 2024 at the Cinéma du Réel festival in France,[3] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

  1. ^ Pat Mullen, "The Soldier’s Lagoon Review: The History of Landscapes". Point of View, May 2, 2024.
  2. ^ Olivier Du Ruisseau, "La Colombie «obscène» de Pablo Álvarez-Mesa". Le Devoir, March 26, 2024.
  3. ^ Fabien Lemercier, "Documentaries cause a stir in Paris thanks to the Cinéma du Réel Festival". Cineuropa, March 22, 2024.