Cesar Rubio, a school teacher in the city, is fired for staying true to his ideals and values, and is also accused of encouraging rebellion among his students, who were demanding the principal's resignation through a strike.
Acting
Armendáriz burns with quiet dignity — a volcano in suspenders.
Direction
Fernández frames Mexico's rot like religious iconography.
Director
Emilio Fernández
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fernández made this during the Twilight of the Golden Age, when Mexican cinema shifted from nationalist epics to darker social criticism — this is his whispered goodbye to heroism.
Armendáriz would die by his own hand in 1963, making his performances as doomed men here almost unbearably prophetic.
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