The Mayor

Original title: El Alcalde

• Documentary

The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.

Director

Emiliano Altuna, Diego Enrique Osorno, Carlos Rossini

Released

18 August 2012

Studio

bambú|audiovisual, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

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