El Norte (Criterion) (1983)

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director: Gregory Nava

studio: Criterion Collection

year: 1983

country: Mexico

format: 1:78:1

number of discs: 1

movie length: 140 minutes

region: 1

cast: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, David Villalpando, Silvia Gutiérrez, Alicia del Lago, Miguel Gomez Giron, Jose Martin Ruano, Stella Quan, Eraclio Zepeda

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called 'a Grapes of Wrath for our time.'