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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

"A haunting remembrance of Chicano family life in the 1950s"

5.3(6 votes)
1995
1h 39m
Drama

Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.

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Production

Companies:
Tierra Voz Producciones (I)
American Playhouse
KPBS

Languages

Original:en
Spoken:
EnglishSpanish

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