Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)

Director: Felipe Cazals

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.

Cast

Salvador Sánchez

Witness

Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Lucas

Enrique Lucero

Cura

Arturo Alegro

Ramón

Roberto Sosa Sr.

Julián

Carlos Chávez

Miguel

Gerardo Vigil

Jesús Carrillo Sánchez

Jaime Garza

Roberto

Sergio Calderón

Presidente Municipal

Gerardo del Castillo

Manuel