Feature film
Cananea
Marcela Fernández Violante · 1978
Synopsis
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two American prospectors, Greene and Nolan, cross the Arizona desert; only the first remains in Mexico. Greene discovers a copper mine at Cananea, in Sonora, and finds in New York the money to exploit it by promising cheap Mexican labour. In the mine, Esteban Baca Calderón, an anarchist worker who reads Ricardo Flores Magón, urges his comrades to strike, in June 1906, and Greene calls on the Arizona Rangers.
Context
Written with Pedro F. Miret and produced by the Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (Conacine), the film was shot in Cananea, Durango and Viesca, in Coahuila, with Gabriel Figueroa as cinematographer, Agustín Ituarte as designer and music by Leonardo Velázquez. Carlos Bracho, Milton Rodríguez, José Carlos Ruiz and Steve Wilensky play the main roles, and Spanish and English are spoken in it. Dated 1976 by filmographies, it was released in 1978 in five cinemas, for two weeks. The strike of 1 June 1906 is counted among the signs of the unrest that preceded the revolution.
Who it is for
Two hours of historical reconstruction on location, in the north of Mexico, for those interested in the origins of the revolution.
Prizes and reception
Ariel for best set design for Agustín Ituarte in 1978, and the prize for cinematography at the Karlovy Vary festival the same year.
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