Felipe Cazals

Directing

Biography

Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Crónica íntima

Mexican feature film

Familiarities

6.7(0.0K)

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Those Years

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President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

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Those Years

Senador Cap. Morgan

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Those Years

6.0(0.0K)

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows

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Documentary that collects various oral testimonies about the life of the Seris, a small ethnic group in the state of Sonora, Mexico.

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Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows

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Dulce espiritu

Mexican feature film

Love Bubbles

Rigo is Love

4.0(0.0K)

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

7.7(0.1K)

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 a true story.

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Canoa: A Shameful Memory

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The Heist

6.5(0.0K)

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

Citizen Buelna

5.0(0.0K)

Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.

Las Poquianchis

6.8(0.0K)

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

3.5(0.0K)

Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.

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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

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