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Alambrista! (The Illegal)
English Title: Alambrista
Poster ID: CL68082
Category: Movies
Year: 1970s
Actor / Director: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, dir. Robert M. Young
Film Studio: Filmhaus
Country: French
Film Country: American
Approximate Size 63 x 47 inches
Condition: Very Good
Price: $200

" An alambrista is an illegal immigrant who crosses into the U.S. via its border with Mexico" This film won four awards in 1977. "In Alambrista!, a Mexican farmworker sneaks across the border to California to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center. ¡Alambrista!, winner of the Cannes Film Festival's inaugural Caméra d'Or in 1978, remains one of the best films ever made on this perennially relevant topic."

Keywords: Mexico,Immigrants,Flags,Borders,California,Political