Tlatelolco

When a tourist bus passes by the Plaza de las tres Culturas in Mexico City, the tourist guide has a challenge. The square in the center of the Tlatelolco-Nonoalco quarter is a veritable epicenter in the pages of Mexican history: the Aztecs retreated to this area under Cuauhtémoc before their ultimate defeat by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521; here, on October 2, 1968, ten days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Mexico, a student demonstration was violently suppressed; and in 1985 a massive earthquake toppled high-rise buildings in the immediate surroundings. The latter two events become the...

Orig. Title
Tlatelolco
Year
2011
Countries
Austria, Mexico
Duration
75 min
Director
Lotte Schreiber
Category
Documentary
Orig. Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English, German
Credits
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