ALAMBRISTA! (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: In ¡Alambrista!, a Mexican farmworker sneaks across the border to California to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young’s take is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center. ¡Alambrista!, winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s inaugural Caméra d’Or in 1978, remains one of the best films ever made on this perennially relevant topic.
• Cast: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty, Jerry Hardin, Julius Harris, Ludevina Mendez Salazar, Maria Guadalupe Chavez, Rafaela Cervantes de Gomez, Feliz Cedano, Edward Lopez, Evelyn Chieko Saito, Tom Tar, Gabriel Segura, Paul Berrones, George Smith, Dennis Harris, Edward James Olmos, Mark Herder, Maria Elena Delgado, J.D. Hurt, Salvador Martinez, Maurice Green, R.L. Dick Rautenberg, Kent Rautenberg, Félix José Álvarez, John Sandoval, Alfred Alvernaz, Constantine Copulos, J.C. Lamont, Thomas Coffman, Lily Álvarez, Robert M. Young, Michael Hausman, Irwin Young, Tom Hurwitz, Edward Beyer, Michael Martin Murphey
• Director: Robert M. Young
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Bobwin Studios, Bobwin Associates Inc., The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie