Roots

Raíces

Mexico

1954

103 Min

Black and White

Spanish

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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SCR Benito Alazraki, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Fernando Espejo, José Miguel García Ascot, María Elena Lazo, Francisco Rojas González, Carlos Velo

DP Hans Beimler, Walter Reuter

CAST Juan de la Cruz, Juan Cano, Conchita Montes, Eduardo Urruchua, Rafael Ramírez, Olimpia Alazraki, Juan Hernàndez, Ángel Lara, Antonia Hernández, Mario Herrera, Alicia del Lago, Carlos Robles Gil, Laura Holt

ED Miguel Campos, Luis Sobreyra

MUSIC Blas Galindo, Rodolfo Halffter, Pablo L. Moncayo, Guillermo Noriega

Actually an incredible piece of filmmaking. The stories are well-written and beautiful. But somehow I feel that the filmmakers are not too different from the gringos in the film. They are portrayed as ignorant by their dismissal of the indigenous as savages, but the film suffers from bouts of indigenism that seem egregious since they are not interested in real equality apart from telling heart-wrenching stories.