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Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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Y Dios la llamó Tierra
Duration: 1 h 25 m | 1961
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
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