Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

7.8IMDb Score
Released:1976-03-04
Duration:116 min
Country:Mexico
Director:Felipe Cazals
Actors:Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Enrique Lucero, Arturo Alegro, Roberto Sosa Sr.
Production:Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica (STPC), Conacite Uno

Overview:

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

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