Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Released
- 1976
- Country
- Mexico
Details
Release year: 1976
Storyline
A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.
Top credits
Enrique Lucero — El señor cura
Salvador Sánchez — El testigo
Ernesto Gómez Cruz — Lucas García- Roberto Sosa — Julián González Baez
Did you know
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) was shot in four and a half weeks.
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #862.
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) 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.
User reviews
Most impacting movie in modern Mexico's cinematography
Terrifying.. Because it's real
Prejudices don't kill people, people with prejudices do.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- Color
- Color
