A peasant tells what happened in Canoa, a village in the State of Puebla, during the night of 14 September 1968. Five members of the Puebla University staff go visiting the La Malinche volcano. Bad weather forces them to stay overnight in the village. Lucas Garcia, a peasant, gives them shelter. The local priest, Enrique Meza, convinces the villagers that the strangers are communist emissaries, atheists and child-stealers. At midnight, by torchlight, they attack Lucas’s house with machetes and ploughing tools, killing the owner and two of his guests. The Puebla City police finds the survivors, wounded and maimed.
Canoa
(Canoa)
- Mexico
- 1975
- Fiction
- Couleur
- 115′
- 35 mm
- Titre français
Canao - Original title
Canoa - Titre international
Canoa - Scénario
Tomas Perez Turrent - Photo
Alex Phillips Jr. - Montage
Rafael Ceballos - Son
Manuel Topete - Interprétation
Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sanchez, Rodrigo Puebla, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Roberto Sosa, Arturo Alegro, Jaime Garza, Malena Doria - Production
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