Feature film
Let's Go with Pancho Villa
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
Fernando de Fuentes · 1936
Synopsis
In 1914, six peasant comrades from San Pablo, who call themselves the Lions of San Pablo, join Pancho Villa's Division of the North. Among them is Tiburcio Maya. At first full of enthusiasm, they find that revolutionary life brings mostly suffering and hardship. One falls saluting Villa after a daring exploit, two others in the assault on Torreón; the survivors are made Dorados, Villa's guard, and the band continues to dwindle.
Context
Drawn from the novel by Rafael F. Muñoz (1931), on a screenplay by Xavier Villaurrutia and the director, the film is produced by Clasa Films Mundiales with the backing of the government of Lázaro Cárdenas, which supplied soldiers, horses, weapons and a military train. Gabriel Figueroa and Jack Draper photograph it, and Silvestre Revueltas wrote the music. It was released on 31 December 1936 at the Palacio cinema and failed in cinemas. A final sequence cut on release was found only decades later.
Who it is for
A film of about an hour and a half, in Spanish, that exists in a short version and a full version; it can be followed without knowing anything about the revolution.
Prizes and reception
Third part of the trilogy of the revolution; ranked first among the hundred best Mexican films by the magazine Somos in 1994.
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