El valle de los miserables
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| Directed by | René Cardona Jr. |
| Produced by | Gustavo Bravo Ahuja |
| Written by | Enrique Albuerne (novel) René Cardona Jr. Jorge Patiño |
| Starring |
Mario Almada Ana Luisa Peluffo Alma Muriel Silvia Mariscal |
| Music by | Gustavo César Carrión |
| Cinematography | Daniel López Santos |
| Edited by | Alfredo Rosas Priego |
| Distributed by | CONACINE |
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110 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
El valle de los miserables (English: The valley of the miserable) is a 1975 Mexican drama film. Based in the novel El Valle Nacional by Enrique Albuerne.
In 1909, the former Judge Cristobal Zamarripa Zamarripa is the owner of the Valle Nacional, the a plantation where snuff exploits workers, supported by the tyrant Porfirio Diaz, who sends political prisoners as slaves. Others are engaged with the promise of high wages, but end up owing all to the company store. All are tortured, raped or killed when they protest. Another rancher (whose brother was killed by Zamarripa), will be punished, but flees and becomes revolutionary. The Zamarripa minions betray each other and they flee of the revolutionaries, led by fugitive landowner. The prisoners, upon release, massacred all the Zamarripa Family.
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