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Writer
1935 - 2006
Tomás Pérez Turrent
Ciudad de México, México
Alsino y el cóndor
Miguel Littín
1983
1h 29m
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet.
Canoa
Felipe Cazals
1976
1h 56m
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.
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