EL NORTE - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1983
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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.'
• Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Lupe Ontiveros, Trinidad Silva, Alicia del Lago, Abel Franco, Enrique Castillo, Tony Plana, Diane Cary, Mike Gomez, Sergi Dagliana, Giuseppe Furia, Pado Hende, Ronald G. Joseph, Bo Kane, Christina Kokubo, Sabina Vannucchi, Jomarie Ward, Heraclio Zepeda, Rodolfo De Alexandre, Sean O'Kane, Antonio Prester, Stella Quan, Gregory Nava
• Director: Gregory Nava
• Runtime: 2:20
• Company: American Playhouse, Channel 4 Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie