Rojo Amanecer

Rojo Amanecer
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Directed byJorge Fons
Written byGuadalupe Ortega
Xavier Robles
Produced byHector Bonilla
Valentin Trujillo
StarringHéctor Bonilla
María Rojo
CinematographyMiguel Garzon
Edited bySigfrido Garcia, Jr.
Music byEduardo Roel
Karen Roel
Release dates
  • December 1989 (December 1989)
Press Release
  • 18 October 1990 (18 October 1990)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Rojo Amanecer (Red Dawn) is a 1989 Silver Ariel Award-winning Mexican crime drama film, directed by Jorge Fons.

It is a film about the Tlatelolco Massacre in the section of Tlatelolco in Mexico City in the evening of October 2, 1968.

It focuses on the day of a middle-class Mexican family living in one of the apartment buildings surrounding the Plaza de Tlatelolco (also known as the Plaza de las Tres Culturas)[1] and is based on testimonials from witnesses and victims.

It stars Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, the Bichir Brothers, Eduardo Palomo and others.

  1. ^ "Home". tlatelolco.inah.gob.mx.