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.
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- Released
- Production
- Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica (STPC), Conacite Uno
Keywords
- small town
- suspicion
- based on true story
- murder
- priest
- anger
- lynching
- mountain climbing
- college student
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Top Cast
Salvador Sánchez as Witness
Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Lucas
Enrique Lucero as Cura
Arturo Alegro as Ramón
Roberto Sosa Sr. as Julián
Carlos Chávez as Miguel
Gerardo Vigil as Jesús Carrillo Sánchez
Jaime Garza as Roberto
Top Crew
Felipe Cazals · Director
Tomás Pérez Turrent · Writer
Álex Phillips Jr. · Cinematographer
Rafael Ceballos · Editor
Roberto Lozoya · Producer
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