1933 | B/N | 95 min At the height of the Mexican Revolution, hacendero Mendoza figures out a way to be in good standing with both the government and the revolutionary forces. He supports the Huerta government and Zapata’s revolutionaries. He welcomes everyone to his hacienda and depending on their political leanings, he hangs up portraits of either Huerta or Zapata and holds a party in his visitor’s honor. But the situation eventually becomes unsustainable. Which side will he take? Country: México Direction: de Fuentes; Fernando Script: Bustillo Oro; Juan, de Fuentes; Fernando, Magdaleno; Mauricio Production: ángel Frías; Rafael, Castellot Jr; José, Prida Santacilia; Antonio Photography: Phillips Jr.; Alex Sound: Kroger; Bj Music: Castro Padilla; Manuel Cast:G Barreiro; Luis, Roldán; Emma, Galán; Abraham, Del Río; José, Del Diestro; Alfredo, Busquets; Joaquín, R. Frausto; Antonio, Guerrero; Carmen Participation year at FICM: 2010
1933 | B/N | 95 min At the height of the Mexican Revolution, hacendero Mendoza figures out a way to be in good standing with both the government and the revolutionary forces. He supports the Huerta government and Zapata’s revolutionaries. He welcomes everyone to his hacienda and depending on their political leanings, he hangs up portraits of either Huerta or Zapata and holds a party in his visitor’s honor. But the situation eventually becomes unsustainable. Which side will he take? Country: México Direction: de Fuentes; Fernando Script: Bustillo Oro; Juan, de Fuentes; Fernando, Magdaleno; Mauricio Production: ángel Frías; Rafael, Castellot Jr; José, Prida Santacilia; Antonio Photography: Phillips Jr.; Alex Sound: Kroger; Bj Music: Castro Padilla; Manuel Cast:G Barreiro; Luis, Roldán; Emma, Galán; Abraham, Del Río; José, Del Diestro; Alfredo, Busquets; Joaquín, R. Frausto; Antonio, Guerrero; Carmen Participation year at FICM: 2010
Doña Bárbara In Venezuela, lawyer Santos Luzardo arrives in the plains to gain control of his lands, but is locked in a terrible conflict with landowner Doña Bárbara, a brave woman turned by fate into a man-eater with a pact with the devil, and who owns the haciendas—and people’s lives. See More
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa During the Mexican Revolution, a group of brave peasants known as the Leones de San Pablo join Pancho Villa’s army. After a few battles, with more defeats than victories behind them, the original group has shrunk in number, and a series of troubles leads them to rethink their position. See More
El prisionero 13 Marta leaves her drunkard husband, Colonel Carrasco, taking their young son with her. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable young man. Years later, Carrasco accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary from his prison and asks to have him replaced by absolutely anyone. That anyone turns out to be his own long-lost son. When Carrasco finds out, he desperately attempts to prevent Juan’s execution at the hands of his very own officers. See More
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