The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 2019
Sonora: The Devil’s Highway
Directed by
Alejandro Springall
1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.
The story
1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.
Cast
Joaquín CosíoEmeterio
Giovanna ZacaríasAlma
Dolores HerediaDoña Rosario
Harold TorresMarcos
Juan Manuel BernalSánchez
Erando GonzálezPedro
Carolina MolvaPilar
Jason TobinLee Wong
Rafael CebrianYuma Joe
Ben MillikenTony
Flavio MedinaAarón
Abbie Del Villar ChiAnita
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