The Mayor (movie)
El Alcalde- User score: 5.8
- Production country: Mexico
- Producer: Emiliano Altuna , Diego Enrique Osorno , Carlos Rossini
- Production companies: bambú|audiovisual
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/18/2012
- Run time: 81 min.
Movie description
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.
