Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1976 · 116 min · ES · 7.8 (63 votes)
Dir. Felipe Cazals · Starring Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Enrique Lucero, Arturo Alegro, Roberto Sosa Sr., Carlos Chávez

A town. Vested interests. 1968: a decisive year in the history of Mexico.

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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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A chilling descent into paranoia and violence. This film captures the suffocating atmosphere of a small town consumed by fear, where suspicion festers and erupts into brutal, senseless rage. It's a harrowing true story that feels disturbingly relevant.

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