Canoa (film)
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Director Felipe Cazals Screenplay Tomas Perez Turrent Writer Tomas Perez Turrent Language Spanish | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama Duration Country Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 4 March 1976 (1976-03-04) Awards Ariel Award for Best Original Story Cast Arturo Alegro (Ramón), Roberto Sosa Sr. (Julián), Carlos Chávez (Miguel), Gerardo Vigil (Jesús Carrillo Sánchez), Jaime Garza (Roberto), Sergio Calderón (Presidente Municipal)Similar movies Related Felipe Cazals movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Spanish: Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso) is a 1976 Mexican drama film directed by Felipe Cazals.
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Plot
The film is based on real events about a group of young employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla who go mountain climbing to La Malinche and have to spend the night in a small town called San Miguel Canoa, where they are confused by communist students. Then during mass the right wing town priest encourages the people to lynch them.
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Production and release
It was one of the first movies to express the tone of the time of the setting: 1968, when student turmoils were spread all across the country. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Canoa (film) IMDb Canoa (film) themoviedb.org
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