El grito (1968)

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El grito is a 1968 Mexican documentary film directed by Leobardo López Aretche about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, in which university students rallied public support for political change under the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had been in power since 1929. The film also chronicles the Tlatelolco massacre that occurred in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on 2 October 1968, committed by the Mexican Armed Forces against students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and other universities.

Production

According to Alfredo Joskowicz, one of the student filmmakers who recorded footage for El grito, a total of almost eight hours of footage was gathered, of which under two hours was included in the finished film. Most of the students' footage of the Tlatelolco massacre was confiscated by soldiers that same evening, but American CBS correspondents offered the filmmakers their own footage of the incident that they had filmed and smuggled out of the…

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