Director: Emilio "El Indio" Fernández.
Country: Mexico
Year: 1956
This film is based on a masterpiece by Rodolfo Usigli whose title is "El gesticulador." The main character of this film is a Professor who falls out with the Rector and his cabinet and thus returns to his native village with his wife and two children. He starts growing corn but the crops fail, in desperation and by choice he assumes a false identity of his grandfather- a revolutionary hero of Mexican Revolution. People of the village rally around him during the election, but he is shot and killed before he can tell "el pueblo," about his true identity.
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Director/s: Various
Country: Mexico
Year: 2010.
The significance of the revolution in today's Mexico is the principal goal of the various directors that each show different aspects of the revolution and its effect on Mexican society through their own lense.
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This is an image of a lobby card of a 1966 Mexican film directed by José Bolaños. Used for educational purposes only. The image rights belong to the creator of the image.
Author: Pick, Zuzana M.
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
The Mexican Revolution and the Arts: Monographs.
With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del Rio and Tina Modotti, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists in revolutionizing Mexico's twentieth-century national iconography.
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