Canoa (1976)

Canoa: Directed by Felipe Cazals. With Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa. 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 true facts occurred in the town of Canoa in 1968.

“This movie is based in a real life story in which a group of students and university workers go on holiday and finish in a small town (Canoa) in the Mexican countryside. They look for a place to spend the night without being aware of what his happening around them until it is too late.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe political climate is volatile: Mexico, 1968, leftist students have been protesting all around the country and the local priest is a megalomaniac afraid to loose his little power and completely paranoid about communism.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat follows is the mob taking over under the directions of the local priest, with funest consequences for the unfortunate students.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eVery explicit violence, Disturbing scenes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHighly recommended.”