La rebelión de los colgados – Spanish title

Rebellion der Gehenkten – German title

Rebelion of the Hanged – English title

 

A 1986 German, Mexican co-production film [TMG (Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (Munich)), Cooperativa Río Mixcoac (Mexico City)]

Producers: Manfred D. Heid, Gabriel Retes (José Balzaretti), Jorge Santoyo

Director: Juan Luis Buñuel

Story: B. Traven (Ret Marut)

Screenplay:

Cinematography: Álex Phillips Jr. (Alex Bolaños) [color]

Music:

Running time: 100 minutes

 

Cast:

Don Ramón – Fernando Balzaretti

Don Severo - Jean-François Stévenin

Captain – Bruno Rey

Mexican soldier – David Yukon

Whores - Anaís de Melo, Graciela Lara

With: Pedro Altamirano (Pedro Marquez), Günther Maria Halmer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Manuel Ojeda (Jesús Ruiz de la Peña), Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, José Carlos Ruiz, Jorge Russek (Jorge Martínez), Reiner Schöne, Javier Zaragoza

Story: At a Mexican logging camp: A manbrings his children and sister to work in the camp. He encounters a world of beatings and brutal punishment. His only recourse, finally, is to lead his co-workers into a bloody and violent rebellion.