Resurrección

2016
3.7
Resurrección
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Title: Resurrección

Original Title: Resurrección

Year: 2016

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Plot

Documentary shot in 2016 and shown at the international film festivals as Guanajuato and Morelia, 'Resurrección' narrates the decadence and struggle for the recovery of the waterfalls of El Salto de Juanacatlán, considered wonders of nature in the past. Contaminated and mistreated over several decades, their current appearance is far from what they had five decades ago. For this reason, the documentary becomes a clear denunciation in favor of the recovery of this natural space, which is seen through the inhabitants of the towns surrounding the waterfalls, called in their day "the Mexican version of cataracts of the Niagara". They unite to defend their natural heritage and show the government the extreme pollution of the Santiago River, which caused the Cascadas de Juanacatlán to become the saddest meaning of decadence and desolation.

Director:

Eugenio PolgovskyEugenio Polgovsky

Trivia

Avoiding danger

In order to not endanger the crew by filming in the area around the Fukushima disaster nuclear reactor, the director took measurements with a contamination meter; the film crew took dust samples and was counselled by radiation experts in Japan and Munich.

Few people

The way Doris Dorrie builds her films is atypical but it allowed 'Resurrección''s filming to be easier. Since they use a small crew, very different from conventional big crews, it was simpler to get in difficult areas like the desolate region of Minimasoma in Fukushima.

A film reference

The title is a direct reference to Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959) that also deals with the trauma of a nuclear catastrophe.

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