
Felipe Cazals
Known for directing · Born 28 July 1937 · Died 16 October 2021 · aged 84 · Mexico City, Mexico
37 credits
Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Known for

Canoa: A Shameful Memory
1975

Las Poquianchis
1976

The Seven Cucas
1981

The Heist
1976

Chicogrande
2010

The Year of the Plague
1978

Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972

Emiliano Zapata
1970

Under the Shrapnel
1983

The Wrath of a God
1988

The Humiliated
1986

Luz's Motives
1986