...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

(1995)

★ 5.4 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1995

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Severo Perez

Cast: Jose Alcala, Роуз Портильо, Арт Бонилья, Марко Родригес, Люпе Онтиверос, Daniel Valdez, Evelyn Guerrero, Sam Vlahos, Сэл Лопес

Plot

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.