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18/07/2024 Drama 2h 2m
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Overview

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

  1. Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Jhon Narváez

    Pepe

  2. Sor María Ríos

    Betania

  3. Fareed Matjila

    Pepe

  4. Harmony Ahalwa

    Pepe

  5. Jorge Puntillón García

    Candelario

  6. Shifafure Faustinus

    Pepe

  7. Steven Alexander

    Cocorico

  8. Nicolás Marín Caly

    Ángel

  9. Wolfgang Fuhrmann

    Cazador Aleman

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-12-14
If you’ve ever been to Karnak or Luxor and wandered through the temples, you can easily imagine the sound of the ancient Egyptian deities philosophising in husky tones about mortality as they adopt their animalistic manifestations. One would be a hippo, and though he’s unlikely to have been called “Pepe”, his would be a discourse on this beast’s association with humanity, with his fellow creatures and - somewhat inexplicably, his journey to Colombia where he is now facing army sharpshooters who want to stop him terrorising the locals in the river. The theistic contrast works quite we...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Spanish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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