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Cascabel / CONACINE y Dasa presentan a ; libro cinematagráfico, Jorge Patiño, Raúl Araiza, Antonio Monsell ; dirección, Raúl Araiza.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary films--Production and direction--Drama.
- Documentary films.
- Documentary films--Social aspects--Drama.
- Censorship--Drama.
- Censorship.
- Tzotzil Indians--Social conditions--Drama.
- Tzotzil Indians.
- Indians, Treatment of--Mexico--Drama.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (104 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Rattlesnake
- Place of Publication:
- Mexico City, Mexico : Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 1976.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Alfredo, a film director, is hired to direct a documentary about the Chamula. Those who hired him assure complete creative freedom if he in turn respects the script. Alfredo takes the job and starts filming, but feels guilty and cowardly because the script distorts reality. While filming, a serious existential experience and family problems culminate in separation from his partner. Seeing the progress of the documentary, sponsors including a minister it bothers because the miserable conditions of the Chamula and even some interviews with members of the opposition as Heberto Castillo appear; so that you remove the tape Alfredo to give to the writer. During the filming of his last scenes, the birth of a child Chamula, Alfredo is bitten by a rattlesnake and dies, the antidote not arriving in time.
- Participant:
- Sergio Jiménez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Rául Ramírez, Aarón Hernán, Héctor Gómez, Mario Casillas, Norma Herrera, Mario Cid.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 09, 2018).
- Won 1978 Ariel Awards, Best Editing
- Won 1978 Ariel Awards, Best First Work
- Won 1978 Mexican Cinema Journalists, Best Film
- OCLC:
- 1022760934
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