Everyone Thought My Father Was Anti-Religious
The daughter of former Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles says that he was not anti-religious, as most thought he was.
Audio recordings of filmmaker Natalia Almada's grandmother talking about her father, former Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles.
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El General (90 min.)
Premiere Date: July 20, 2010
Streaming Dates: Expired
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Filmmaker: Natalia Almada Bio | Interview | Statement
Press: Press Release | Fact Sheet | MoMA Screening
For seven years General Plutarco Elías Calles has loomed indestructible in the Mexican picture, like a Toltec pyramid — huge, harsh, mysterious. His name adds naturally to the list of dictatorial gladiators that the world watches with mixed feelings. . . . He has been called a Mexican Mussolini, an Indian von Hindenburg, a Latin American Lenin.”
— Anita Brenner,
The New York Times, 1937
[A] remarkable documentary, provocative and impressionistic, based on questions rather than assertions ... 9 out of 10 stars”
— Cynthia Fuchs,
PopMatters
A tour de force of cinematic imagination bristling with beauty, contradiction and the epic scope of Mexico’s last 100 years of history.””
— Cara Mertes,
Sundance Documentary Institute
