Juárez y Maximiliano (1934)

Original title

Juárez y Maximiliano: la caída de un imperio

Directed by

Miguel Contreras Torres

Genre

drama film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about the French invasion of Mexico in the 1860s. It follows the conflict between Emperor Maximilian I and President Benito Juarez.

historicaldramaticslow-burnstatelyseriousformalepicpatriotic

What happens

Juarez or Juarez and Maximilian (Spanish: Juárez y Maximiliano) is a 1934 Mexican historical drama film directed by Miguel Contreras Torres and Raphael J. Sevilla. The film is set during the French intervention in Mexico during the 1860s, and features the battle between Maximilian I of Mexico and Benito Juárez. The theme is based on the 1925 play Franz Werfel called Juarez and Maximilian. The theme is used again in the 1939 American film Juarez. It was one of the few major commercial successes for the Mexican film industry in the early sound era, before the beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. It was one of the most expensive Mexican films made at that time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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