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El principio (1973)
Directed by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
Action, Drama, History · 2h 15m
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Cast
Lucha Villa
María del Rayo, la Coquena
Narciso Busquets
Don Ernesto Domínguez
Andrés García
Luciano
Fernando Balzaretti
David Domínguez
Sergio Bustamante
Don Pancho
Aurora Clavel
Madre Soldadera
Patricia Aspíllaga
Claudia Guadalajara
Evangelina Martínez
Petrita
Bruno Rey
General Cardiel
Lina Montes
Doña Cuca
Armando Acosta
El Cura
Gregorio Acosta
General Francisco Villa
Crew
- Director
- Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
- Writer
- Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
- Editor
- Carlos Savage
- Producer
- Víctor Junco
Details
- Release date
- 1973-12-03
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Mexico
- Production
- Estudios Churubusco Azteca