- HD 1080
- Runtime: 116m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: es
- Country: Mexico
- Director: Felipe Cazals
- Stars: Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Enrique Lucero, Arturo Alegro, Roberto Sosa Sr.
- keywords: small town, suspicion, based on true story, murder, priest, anger, lynching, mountain climbing, college student
- Production_studio: Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica (STPC), Conacite Uno
- Slogan: A town. Vested interests. 1968: a decisive year in the history of Mexico.
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Canoa: A Shameful Memory is featured in the top rankings of 1976
- #2 in Top Crime Movies of 1976
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
