Viva El Indio

Few recognize that the lusty, predatory Mapache was played by an incredibly important figure in the Mexican film industry — actor/director Emilio Fernandez. Fernandez not only spear-headed the Golden Age of Mexican cinema by directing a powerful series of films during the early 1940s but he had actually participated in the tail end of his country’s revolutionary period in the early 1920s. In other words, Fernandez lived long and large, with his life and career spanning the real history of the revolution to a fictionalized version of it...