(1976) Canoa:: A Shameful Memory/ Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso
(In Spanish with English subtitles)
DOCU-DRAMA
Depicting an actual event called the "San Miguel Canoa Massacre" but more of an reenactment of the events that led up to that particular mob mentality escalated by a priest, El señor cura (Enrique Lucero). When five students of Ramón Calvario Gutiérrez (Arturo Alegro), Julián González Baez (Roberto Sosa), Roberto Rojano Aguirre (Jaime Garza), Miguel Flores Cruz (Carlos Chávez), and Jesús Carrillo Sánchez (Gerardo Vigil) stopping by the village, San Miguel Canoa after a hiking expedition. Only to confront the villagers accusation of being Communist revolutionaries accused by a radical, right wing extremist priest, to be used as scapegoats after the government's spending on the Summer Olympics that happened in 1968.
The tone is similar to the movie "Reds" in which it dwells on interviews from some of the villagers who were actually there. I just did not appreciate the aftermath regarding the priest, El señor cura himself, who ignited the riots.
Depicting an actual event called the "San Miguel Canoa Massacre" but more of an reenactment of the events that led up to that particular mob mentality escalated by a priest, El señor cura (Enrique Lucero). When five students of Ramón Calvario Gutiérrez (Arturo Alegro), Julián González Baez (Roberto Sosa), Roberto Rojano Aguirre (Jaime Garza), Miguel Flores Cruz (Carlos Chávez), and Jesús Carrillo Sánchez (Gerardo Vigil) stopping by the village, San Miguel Canoa after a hiking expedition. Only to confront the villagers accusation of being Communist revolutionaries accused by a radical, right wing extremist priest, to be used as scapegoats after the government's spending on the Summer Olympics that happened in 1968.
The tone is similar to the movie "Reds" in which it dwells on interviews from some of the villagers who were actually there. I just did not appreciate the aftermath regarding the priest, El señor cura himself, who ignited the riots.