La sombra del Caudillo

1960
2h 9m

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The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn... Read allThe movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss,El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. S... Read allThe movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss,El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. Several political moves are done between the parties, leading to a thunderous climax.

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Political Portrait

A very curious film because, based on the 1929 work of Martin Luís Gusmán, it denounces the dirty struggle for power within the revolutionary army and in the intricacies of supposedly democratic politics in Mexico in the 1920s.

With fictional characters, Gusmán and Bracho put their finger on the wound of the struggle for power, not just in Mexico but in general. Even in current representative democracies, the ruling generals are replaced by other caudillos, but the principles and ethics are the same, an indignant struggle for power and wealth, where everything goes and the ends always justify the means.

Mexican political power was so well portrayed in the film that banned it for 30 years, with it only being released, abroad, in 1990.

A picture that shows politics in its true grotesque face.

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This movie was deemed too controversial by official censors, since it portrays the massacre that gave birth to Mexico's ruling party. It was commercially released until the year of 1990, thirty years after original final version that was never shown to the public.