El Norte (1983) on Netflix
Enrique and Rosa are Mayan siblings in a Guatemalan village, where their father Arturo picks coffee and tries to organize a union. Soldiers attack the organizers, and the two flee north.
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Plot summary
In San Pedro, a rural village in Guatemala, the Xuncax family is a group of indigenous Mayans. Arturo picks coffee, and his wife keeps their home. Arturo tells his son Enrique how the indio fares in their country, and the family talks about the United States, where even poor people own cars. Arturo tries to organize the coffee workers into a union. Government troops attack the organizers, and soldiers take the children's mother away. Their godmother gives Enrique and Rosa money, so the brother and sister leave Guatemala and head north.
Cast
- Alicia del Lagoas Lupe
- Jose Martin Ruanoas Foreman
- Stella Quanas Josefita
- Eraclio Zepedaas Pedro
- Emilio Gomez Ozunaas Luis
- Daniel Lemus Valenzuelaas Encarnacion
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about El Norte (1983)
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- Gregory Nava drew on his own life for El Norte: he grew up in San Diego in a border family with relatives across the line in Tijuana, crossed the border several times a week as a youth, and wondered who lived in the cardboard shacks on the Mexican side.
- El Norte went on to become a staple of high school Spanish language and Human Geography classes throughout the United States, as well as of multiculturalism studies in college.
