Godfather Mendoza Reviews

(Canal Filmoteca Unam) Extraordinario Rosalío mendoza, la ambiguedad, la personalidad, no hay juego claro con él y sin embargo cuantos sentimientos; Lolita lo complementa perfectamente. Grandes secuencia donde se lucen secundarios como el asistente y el general gobiernista

In the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Rosalio Mendoza survives doing and asking for favors on both sides of the conflict (government forces and the army of Zapata). In your doing and everyone is welcome Mendoza is highly esteemed, especially by General Felipe Nieto. Time passes and the situation starts to become unsustainable. Mendoza will have to take sides, even if it means the betrayal of his friends.

"El compadre Mendoza" is a major Mexican film based on a story by Mauricio Magdaleno, with dialogues of Juan Bustillo Oro and de Fuentes. In the context of an allegory about the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, attended the one hand, the moral destruction of a man accommodative (Alfredo's Right as Rosalio Mendoza), who sacrificed friendship for the benefit of immediate interest, and secondly hand, found platonic love, clean and honest between Dolores (Carmen Guerrero) and General Felipe Nieto (Antonio R. Frausto) narrated with infinite delicacy and tenderness.

The movie is part of the best of its director, Fernando de Fuentes, and be placed on what has been called the "trilogy about the Mexican Revolution": "El prisionero trece" (1933); "El compadre Mendoza" (1933) and "Vámonos con Pancho Villa" (1935).