Films by Orlando Lübbert

Germany 2016, 52 min
by Joerg Altekruse, Orlando Lübbert

“The peoples of Latin America belong together, we're like brothers and sisters.” Teresa Romero, a primary school director in Bolivia’s seat of government La Paz, is convinced, that “this is exactly Simon Bolivars vision of a united Bolivarian continent”.Born in Venezuela in 1783, the wealthy descendant of Basque noblemen had been inspired by the ideals of the French enlightenment: liberty, equality, fraternity. At the age 22 years Simon Bolivar swore to his teacher in Rome, “From now I have only