''Sábado de mierda'' ("Saturday of Shit") is a 1988 Mexican film by
Gregorio Rocha and his then-partner
Sarah Minter, shot between 1985 and 1987.
The film is one of four independent films of the 1985–1991 period focusing on the lives of punk gangs in the
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl ("Neza York") suburb of Mexico City.
The specific gang was a group known as
Mierdas Punks ("Shit Punks"), who were also featured in the documentaries ''
Nadie es inocente'' (also by Minter), and ''
La neta no hay futuro'' by Andrea Gentile.
The film is classified as a
semi-documentary
A semidocumentary is a form of book, film, or television program presenting a fictional story that incorporates many factual details or actual events, or which is presented in a manner similar to a documentary.
Characteristics
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1988 films
Documentary films about punk music and musicians
Documentary films about urban studies
Mexican documentary films
Docufiction films
1980s Spanish-language films
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl
1980s Mexican films
Spanish-language documentary films
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