| Silverio
Palacios, Dagoberto Gama, Fermin Martinez, Angel Tavira, Octavio
Castro, Mario Garibaldi, Gerardo Taracena.
Filmmaker Francisco Vargas Quevedo
makes his feature film debut with this expansion of his well received
short film detailing the struggle between the peasants and military
in 1970s-era Mexico. Don Plautarco (Don Angel) is a dignified elder
who, along with his son Genaro (Gerardo Taracena) and grandson Lucio
(Mario Garibaldi), makes his living as a traveling musician. On
the side, the trio secretly smuggles weapons and supplies to the
freedom fighters who are bravely attempting to overthrow the oppressive
regime. When the trio returns to their hometown to find that it
has been occupied by the army in their absence and the villagers
have been forced to flee, Genaro departs in hopes of salvaging their
supplies while Plutarco boldly approaches the squad captain (Dagoberto
Gama) with the intention of personally recovering the ammunition
on the sly. An outwardly harmless old man who convinces the captain
to allow him access to the cornfields in exchange for playing music,
Plutarco slowly but surely begins smuggling the ammunition back
into the village in his violin case as the unsuspecting military
man ravenously gorges himself into oblivion. |