Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Direction
Fernández Violante's unflinching gaze at systemic cruelty.
Acting
Bracho's simmering dignity against Wilensky's colonial arrogance.
Production
Authentic 1906 mining town reconstruction, dirt and all.
Director
Marcela Fernández Violante
Yolanda Ciani
Mary Greene
Milton Rodríguez
Tony Coppola
José Carlos Ruiz
Manuel Diéguez
Beatriz Sheridan
Priscilla Johnson
Roger Cudney
Ted Nolan
Jorge Fegán
Presidente municipal
Víctor Junco
Porfirio Díaz
Carlos East
Pat Garrett
Víctor Alcocer
Gob. Rafael Izábal
Ramón Menéndez
Minero compadre
David Povall
Secretario Mellon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released under López Portillo's presidency, when depicting worker militancy was politically daring. Fernández Violante smuggled radical history past censors.
The real 1906 Cananea strike is considered a precursor to the Mexican Revolution; the film was barely distributed, allegedly due to U.S. pressure.
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