| El valle de los miserables | |
| Director: | René Cardona Jr. |
| Producer: | Gustavo Bravo Ahuja |
| Starring: | Mario Almada Ana Luisa Peluffo Alma Muriel Silvia Mariscal |
| Music: | Gustavo César Carrión |
| Cinematography: | Daniel López Santos |
| Editing: | Alfredo Rosas Priego |
| Distributor: | CONACINE |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Language: | Spanish |
El valle de los miserables (English: The valley of the miserable) is a 1975 Mexican drama film. Based in the novel El Valle Nacional by Enrique Albuerne.
In 1909, the former Judge Cristobal Zamarripa Zamarripa is the owner of the Valle Nacional, the a plantation where snuff exploits workers, supported by the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends political prisoners as slaves. Others are engaged with the promise of high wages, but end up owing all to the company store. All are tortured, raped or killed when they protest. Another rancher (whose brother was killed by Zamarripa), will be punished, but flees and becomes revolutionary. The Zamarripa minions betray each other and they flee of the revolutionaries, led by fugitive landowner. The prisoners, upon release, massacred all the Zamarripa family.[1]