Felipe Cazals
1937 (87 лет)Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies.
Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Felipe Cazals
Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Enrique Lucero
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.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
The Heist
Felipe Cazals
José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
The Heist
Las Poquianchis
Felipe Cazals
Diana Bracho, Malena Doria
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
Las Poquianchis
Los motivos de Luz
Felipe Cazals
Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alonso Echánove
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Luz's Motives
La furia de un dios
Felipe Cazals
Humberto Zurita, Assumpta Serna
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.
The Wrath of a God
El año de la peste
Felipe Cazals
Alejandro Parodi, José Carlos Ruiz
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic. (IMDb)
The Year of the Plague
Bajo la metralla
Felipe Cazals
Humberto Zurita, María Rojo
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
Under the Shrapnel
Chicogrande
Felipe Cazals
Damián Alcázar, Bruno Bichir
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Chicogrande
