Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Direction
Isaac stages the coup like a suffocating chamber piece.
Acting
Bruno Rey's Huerta: jowly, paranoid, terrifyingly banal.
Cinematography
Grainy 70s Mexico City standing in for 1913—time collapses.
Director
Alberto Isaac
Bruno Rey
Victoriano Huerta
Héctor Ortega
Belisario Domínguez
Arturo Beristáin
Sebastián Quiroga
Alejandro Parodi
José Ma. Iglesias
Eduardo López Rojas
General Villista
José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'
Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora
Ignacio Retes
Coronel Rebelde
Delia Casanova
Soldadera
Manuel Dondé
Jesús Fernández, boticario
Ramón Menéndez
Venustiano Carranza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the 'Mexican cinema renaissance' but buried by poor distribution; most Mexicans saw it on late-night TV decades later.
Isaac was blacklisted briefly for this—Portillo's regime preferred heroic revolution narratives, not this sweaty paranoid mess.
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