Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Original title: Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso

116 minutes • 1976 • 7.8 Score

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.

Felipe Cazals

Director