Cemetery of the Elephants

Cemetery of the Elephants

1974 · 17 min · Drama

A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored away as a symbolic object. He goes to find it and unearth it. A return to the lost childhood in which his first creative impulses took root.

Directed by Armando Robles Godoy

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