“El Rey”, a 1987 film starring Vico and his Grupo Karicia, is re-released on November 24

“El Rey”, a film that premiered in 1987, which broke box office records and stars Víctor Carrasco Tineo, singer and leader of Vico and his Karicia Groupwill be re-released in a restored version this November 24 in all Cine Star theaters nationwide.

This has been confirmed by the producer María Ruiz Vivanco and the film director Juan Carlos Torrico, who won the call for Peruvian Film Restoration Projects carried out by the Ministry of Culture in 2021 and managed to get the tape back.

“’El Rey’ has been released for more than 30 years, the film was intact and I took it to Venezuela to process it with sound, filters, etc. What will be seen now in the cinema is much better than what was seen before. I completely restored it and it is a jewel of popular Peruvian cinema”said Maria Ruiz.

The film features the performance of the renowned interpreter Julio Marcone and the remembered vedette Belgium Rodas and many other national actors. After three decades, the public will be able to see these interpretations again on the big screen.

Given this news, the popular singer Vico, who is still in force in cumbia, and the experienced director Juan Carlos Torrico have expressed their emotion and the I hope that young audiences also give this film that broke the box office record in 1987 a chance.

Vico said that when the film director Juan Carlos Torrico proposed to make the film, he could not believe it. “He had already made the Los Shapis movie at that time, but in the end everything happened and it was a success in Peru. I hope that the people who see it again and those who will just see it, enjoy it. It is part of the history of music in the country that marked part of history “he referred.