CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY

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• Release Year: 1976
• Genre: Adventure; Crime; Drama; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: One of Mexico’s most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Director Felipe Cazals adopts a gritty documentary style to narrate the events in Canoa while referencing the climate of political repression that would lead to the massacre of student protesters in Mexico City shortly thereafter. The resulting film is a daring commentary on ideological manipulation, religious fanaticism, and mass violence, as well as a visceral expression of horror.
• Cast: Enrique Lucero; Salvador Sánchez; Ernesto Gómez Cruz; Roberto Sosa; Arturo Alegro; Carlos Chávez; Jaime Garza; Gerardo Vigil; Rodrigo Puebla; Manuel Ojeda; Malena Doria; Flor Trujillo; María de los Ángeles Rodríguez; Gastón Melo; Jorge Fegán; Gerardo del Castillo; Salvador Garcini; Sergio Calderón; Baltazar Oviedo; Juan Ángel Martínez; Maricruz Nájera; Adriana Rojo; Julio Alejandro Lobato; Guillermo Gil; Paco Mauri; Alicia del Lago; Rodrigo Cruz; Juan López Moctezuma; Erica Mireles; Inés Murillo; Felipe Cazals; Tomás Pérez Turrent; Roberto Lozoya; Álex Phillips Jr.; Rafael Ceballos; Sigfrido García; Manuel Topete; Carlos Grandjean
• Director: Felipe Cazals
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Conacite Uno, S.T.P.C., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie