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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...
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| Online Access: | Streaming video from Academic Video Online |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Published: | Mexico City, Mexico : Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 1976. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed January 09, 2018). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (104 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 01:43:50 |
| Awards: | Won 1978 Ariel Awards, Best Editing Won 1978 Ariel Awards, Best First Work Won 1978 Mexican Cinema Journalists, Best Film |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |