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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1995) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 5, 1995

Original Title:
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
American Playhouse
KPBS
Kino International
Tierra Voz Producciones (I)

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 99

A haunting remembrance of Chicano family life in the 1950s

Overview from TheMovieDB

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

Art Direction:
Kirk M. Petruccelli
Russell J. Smith
Peter Stolz

Assistant Director:
John Acevedo

Associate Producer:
Bob Morones

Casting:
Bob Morones

Co-Producer:
Severo Perez

Costume Design:
Yvonne Cervantes

Director:
Severo Perez

Director of Photography:
Virgil L. Harper

Editor:
Susan Heick
Howard Heard

Executive Producer:
Lindsay Law
Paul Espinosa

Novel:
Tomás Rivera

Original Music Composer:
Marcos Loya

Production Design:
Armin Ganz

Set Decoration:
Sharon Reed
Norine Joy Francis

Writer:
Severo Perez

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