Digna... hasta el último aliento
Directed byFelipe Cazals
Written byFelipe Cazals
Produced byAcademia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos
Grupo de Comunicación Publicorp
Conaculta-IMCINE
Luis Kelly
Vicente Silva
StarringVanessa Bauche
Music byAlejandro Rosso
Release date
  • 17 December 2004 (2004-12-17) (Mexico)
Running time
118 min.
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Digna... hasta el último aliento ("Digna (dignified)... until the last breath") is a Mexican film released in 2003.

This documentary is about Digna Ochoa Plácido, a human rights activist who died under mysterious circumstances in 2001 in Mexico City following her kidnapping by the federal police in 1999. It was presented at the Guadalajara and Berlin Film Festivals. It won the Ariel Award in 2005 in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary ("Mejor Largometraje Documental") for Felipe Cazals. It was also nominated for the Ariel Award for the Best Actress (Vanessa Bauche).

Plot

The story of the film covers part of the life of the lawyer and social activist Digna Ochoa, from her first kidnapping in August 1988 to her death in October 2001. The film presents more than sixty testimonies from criminologists, journalists (Blanche Petrich and Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa), human rights defenders (Emilio Álvarez Icaza), clergymen, police, social activists, the attorney general of Mexico City (Bernardo Bátiz), as well as Digna Ochoa's family and friends, while the actors who take part in the film dramatise the events of her life.[1]

Technical data

Felipe Cazals was the director and writer of the script. The film was scored by Alejandro Rosso. The cinematography was by Hugo Díaz and Miguel Garzón, and the sound was by Pedro Villalobos. It was produced by the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Conaculta), the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos and the Grupo de Comunicación Publicorp. The producers were Luis Kelly and Vicente Silva.[2] The feature-length television report edited by Moisés Carrillo has a running time of 117 minutes.[3]

The film was presented at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Malaga Spanish Film Festival and the Guadalajara International Film Festival. It was commercially released in Mexico on 17 December 2004.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Digna... hasta el último aliento". 2011-01-15. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  2. ↑ "Digna ...hasta el último aliento es recibida con éxito en el Festival de Berlín". La Crónica de Hoy. 6 February 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Digna... hasta el último aliento Digna...Worthy to Her Final Breat". Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  4. ↑ Velazco, Salvador; Cazals, Felipe (2006). "Digna hasta el último aliento". Chasqui. 35 (1): 177. doi:10.2307/29742090. ISSN 0145-8973. JSTOR 29742090.


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