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The film was nominated for over 30 awards, including an Academy Awards nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, winning 19. [ citation needed ] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes counted 83 reviews with a 61% approval rating.
- $1.8 million
- Daniel Birman Ripstein, Alfredo Ripstein
- Rosino Serrano
Dec 13, 2002 · The Crime of Padre Amaro: Directed by Carlos Carrera. With Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón. Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.
- (14K)
- Drama, Romance
- Carlos Carrera
- 2002-12-13
What Father Amaro discovers is a corrupt church bureaucracy collaborating with local drug lords who donate huge sums of money to favorite church charities.
Latter retaliates by unearthing a series of clerical scandals, starting with one photo that exposes Father Benito’s organized crime connection. Resulting public outcry brings down the bishop’s...
Nov 15, 2002 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The Crime of Father Amaro" arrives surrounded by controversy. One of the most successful Mexican films in history, it has been denounced by William Donohue of the Catholic League for its "vicious" portrait of priests; on the other hand, Father Rafael Gonzalez, speaking for the Council of Mexican Bishops ...
Nov 15, 2002 · Father Amaro (Gael García Bernal), a young Roman Catholic priest, is a new arrival in a small Mexican town. Assigned to help the older Father Benito (Sancho Gracia), Amaro gradually...
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- Drama
- R
O Crime do Padre Amaro: cenas da vida devota (published in translations as The Crime of Father Amaro: Scenes from the Religious Life or The Sin of Father Amaro), is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
