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El valle de los miserables
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Wikipedia article
'El valle de los miserables' (English: 'The valley of the miserable') is a 1975 Mexican drama film. Based in the novel 'El Valle Nacional' by Enrique Albuerne.
Synopsis
In 1909, the former Judge Cristobal Zamarripa Zamarripa is the owner of the Valle Nacional, the a plantation where snuff exploits workers, supported by the tyrant Porfirio Daz, who sends political prisoners as slaves. Others are engaged with the promise of high wages, but end up owing all to the company store. All are tortured, raped or killed when they protest. Another rancher (whose brother was killed by Zamarripa), will be punished, but flees and becomes revolutionary. The Zamarripa minions betray each other and they flee of the revolutionaries, led by fugitive landowner. The prisoners, upon release, massacred all the Zamarripa family.[http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film990572.html 'Resea en FilmAffinity']
Cast
* Mario Almada ... 'Don Cristobal Zamarripa'
* Ana Luisa Peluffo ... 'Concepcin Zamarripa'
* Silvia Mariscal ... 'Margarita Zamarripa'
* Alma Muriel ... 'Marina Guzmn'
* Fernando Almada ... 'Verduguillo'
* Ricardo Carrin ... 'Dr. Felipe lvarez'
* Marianne Sauvage ... 'Lydia Zamarripa'
* Hugo Stiglitz ... 'Felipe Aguirre'
* Jorge Russek ... 'Pancracio'
* Ren Cardona ... 'Don Luis Aguirre'
* Roberto "Flaco" Guzmn ... 'Chico'
* Guillermo lvarez Bianchi ... 'Don Casimiro'
* Jos Carlos Ruiz ... 'To Chinto'
* Famie Kauffmann "Vitola" ... 'Doa Vrgen'
* Farnesio de Bernal ... 'Sacerdote'
* Juan Jose Martnez Casado ... 'Don Crispn'
References
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