Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Spanish: Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso) is a 1976 Mexican drama film directed by Felipe Cazals, based upon the San Miguel Canoa Massacre.[1]

Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Criterion Collection DVD cover
Directed byFelipe Cazals
Written byTomás Pérez Turrent
Produced byRoberto Lozoya
StarringArturo Alegro
CinematographyÁlex Phillips Jr.
Edited byRafael Ceballos
Release date
  • 4 March 1976 (1976-03-04)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The film is a dramatic re-enactment of real-life events that took place in 1968 in the small village of San Miguel Canoa in Puebla, México. There a group of five young employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla intended to spend the night en route to a hike up La Malinche. The group was viciously set upon by villagers who had been manipulated by a local right-wing priest to believe them to be Communist revolutionaries and deserved lynching.

The film is shot in a documentary style and examines the pervasive atmosphere of repression in the country following wide-spread protests over the government's spending on the 1968 Summer Olympics, eventually leading to a massacre of hundreds of protestors in Mexico City.

Cast

Release

It was one of the first movies to express the tone of the time of the setting: Mexico 1968, when student turmoils were spread across the country. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.[2]

Reception

The film was both a critical and a box-office success.[3] Mexican filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón have praised the film.[4]

References
  1. "Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso". www.filmografiamexicana.unam.mx. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  2. "Berlinale 1976: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  3. "Canoa: A Shameful Memory: The Devil in Disguise". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. "'Canoa: A Shameful Memory' is shamelessly enticing". 27 April 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
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