Presumed Guilty (2008)
Presumed Guilty holds the box office record for documentary in Mexico, previously held by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911. According to The Economist, this is "by far the most successful documentary in Mexico's History. " The plot of the film is the attempt by two young Mexican attorneys to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. The film was released theatrically at about the same time the Oscar nominated films such as Black Swan and The Kings Speech were being shown on cinema screens in Mexico. It surpassed both of those films at the Box Office. The film was televised by Televisa on Channel 2 in the fall of 2011.
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Cast:
- Antonio Zúñiga
- Eva Gutiérrez
- Eva Gutiérrez (wife of Antonio Zúñiga)
- Hector Palomares Medina (the judge)
- Jose Manuel Ortega Saavedra (Detective)
- Layda Negrete (filmmaker/lawyer)
- Maricela Guzman (the prosecutor)
- Rafaél Ramirez Heredia
- Rafaél Ramirez Heredia (Zuñiga's defense lawyer)
- Roberto Hernández (filmmaker/lawyer)