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Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Spanish: Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso) is a 1976 Mexican drama film directed by Felipe Cazals, based upon the San Miguel Canoa Massacre.[1]

Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Criterion Collection DVD cover
Directed by	Felipe Cazals
Written by	Tomás Pérez Turrent
Produced by	Roberto Lozoya
Starring	Arturo Alegro
Cinematography	Álex Phillips Jr.
Edited by	Rafael Ceballos
Release date	4 March 1976 (1976-03-04)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Plot

The film is a dramatic re-enactment of real-life events that took place in 1968 in the small village of San Miguel Canoa in Puebla, México. There a group of five young employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla intended to spend the night en route to a hike up La Malinche. The group was viciously set upon by villagers who had been manipulated by a local right-wing priest to believe them to be Communist revolutionaries and deserved lynching.

The film is shot in a documentary style and examines the pervasive atmosphere of repression in the country following wide-spread protests over the government's spending on the 1968 Summer Olympics, eventually leading to a massacre of hundreds of protestors in Mexico City.

Cast

• Enrique Lucero as Priest
• Salvador Sánchez as Witness
• Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Lucas
• Roberto Sosa as Julián
• Jaime Garza as Roberto
• Arturo Alegro as Ramón
• Carlos Chávez as Miguel
• Gerardo Vigil as Jesús Carrillo Sánchez
• Manuel Ojeda as Town man

Release

It was one of the first movies to express the tone of the time of the setting: Mexico 1968, when student turmoils were spread across the country. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.[2]

Reception

The film was both a critical and a box-office success.[3] Mexican filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón have praised the film.[4]

References

External links

• Canoa: A Shameful Memory at IMDb
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory: The Devil in Disguise an essay by Fernanda Solórzano at the Criterion Collection

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