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DVD

El norte = The north

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

In K'iche', Spanish and English, with optional English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Ernesto Gómez Cruz, David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Alicia del Lago.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2008]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (140 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: R.

Summary

"Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called 'a Grapes of Wrath for our time.'"--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

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