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DVD, 2008
Current format, DVD, 2008, Director-approved special ed, All copies in use.
DVD, 2008
Current format, DVD, 2008, Director-approved special ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
El norte: Enrique and Rosa are brother and sister Mayan Indian peasants, living in the mountains of Guatemala. When the village attempts to organize for better treatment, Enrique and Rosa are forced to flee as the Guatemalan army is sent in to punish the townspeople. Receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant, they make their way to Los Angeles, hoping to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants. The journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva: Nava's 1972 award-winning thirty-minute student film, based on the life of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, depicting the life of a fictional poet caught in the Spanish Civil War and jailed, but then set free on the condition he leaves his country and never returns.
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In Spanish, Kiché and English with optional English subtitles.
Soundtrack in Quiché, Spanish and English; subtitles available in English.
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