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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
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