Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Name: Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1976-03-04
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 7.80
Cast: Salvador Sánchez, Enrique Lucero, Roberto Sosa, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

– A group of students take a bus to go to a small town, in order to finish a professional practice. Al..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

7.80 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 55 Minutes

Release Year:

1976

Original Name:

Canoa

A group of students take a bus to go to a small town, in order to finish a professional practice. All of them are friends, and they decide to sing some modern songs, while the other passengers are trying to sleep. One of the passengers gets angry and shouts "stop rowing", so they shut up. But when they arrive in the town, and after knowing the incident, everybody treats them as if they were criminals.

Styles:

Disturbing, Tense, Bleak, Rough, Suspenseful, Realistic, Serious

Story Timeline:

1970s

Producing Country:

Mexico

Filming Locations:

Latin America, Mexico

Genre:

Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) - Trailer

Release Date:

04 Mar 1976

Language:

Spanish, Nahuatl

MPAA Content-Rating:

Not Rated

Directed by:

Felipe Cazals

Story Written By:

Tomás Pérez Turrent

Main Actors:

Salvador Sánchez, Enrique Lucero, Roberto Sosa, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Plot:

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 true facts occurred in the town of Canoa in 1968.

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.9/10