Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Original title: Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso
“A town. Vested interests. 1968: a decisive year in the history of Mexico.”
7.9(93)19751h 56mES
Directed by Felipe Cazals
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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