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Canoa : a shameful memory

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN, EAS)

Edition

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Languages

In Spanish, with English subtitles.

Performers

Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2017]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel de Canoa, who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Felipe Cazals ; new introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro ; new conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Cazals ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.

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