Macario
- IMDb link: 0054042
- IMDb rating: 8.3 (5,184 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Director: Roberto GavaldΓ³n
- Cast: Ignacio LΓ³pez Tarso, Enrique Lucero, Pina Pellicer, Mario Alberto Rodriguez and others
- Release date: 9 Jun 1960
- Release year: 1960
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Country: Mexico
- Keywords: character name as title, forename as title, one word title, day of the dead, holiday horror, wife, gift, turkey meat, death, inquisition
Plot:
Macario revolves around a man who, on his daily toil to provide for his impoverished family encounters Satan, God and Death. One of them offers a supernatural ability in exchange for a seemingly little price. Macario and his family experience the journey and consequences this new gift has brought to their lives. It's a beautiful cinematic timestamp of colonial Mexico that involves it's folklore, class inequalities and the struggles of rural life. Based on the novel by B. Traven, which respectively is loosely based on Grimms Brother's Godfather Death.
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