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.
Directed by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
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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
Juan Allende
Enrique
Rafael Arreola
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