Movielogr
El principio (1973)
Directed by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
Overview
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.
Length 135 minutes
Actors
Lucha Villa | Narciso Busquets | Andrés García | Fernando Balzaretti | Sergio Bustamante | Aurora Clavel | Patricia Aspíllaga | Evangelina Martínez | Bruno Rey | Lina Montes | Armando Acosta | Gregorio Acosta | Juan Allende | Rafael Arreola | Armando Coria | Maria Luisa Garza Ruiz | Alfonso Obregon | Maribel Tarragó | Alejandro Parodi | Eduardo López Rojas | Pilar Souza | Arthur Hansel | Patricia Luke | Rodrigo Puebla | Ivan J. Rado | Manuel Zozaya | Juan Balzaretti | Jorge Balzaretti | Adolfo Torres Portillo | Maricruz Nájera | Inés Murillo | Jaime Moreno | Victor Jordan | Regino Herrera | Humberto Dupeyrón