Macario is a 1960 Mexican film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Ignacio López Tarso. It was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language. It was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film … [More]

http://www.youtube.com/user/MacarioYT Macario is a 1960 Mexican film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Ignacio López Tarso. It was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language. It was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The film is adapted from the novel The Third Guest by B. Traven, and differs from the plot in that in the book, Death appears to already know the course of events that will lead to Macario's downfall ("once men will know about it, you will not be able to stop") and that Death will allow one last favor, out of gratitude for restoring Death's energy for another 100 years, saving Macario's family and Macario himself from the public dishonor brought by the Inquisition verdict. The last scenes show his wife looking for Macario out in the woods only to find him peacefully dead, next to a turkey divided in halves: one of which is eaten, the other being intact, as if he died not fulfilling his dream of eating a complete turkey for himself.

Macario es una película mexicana de 1960 de la llamada Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano, dirigida por Roberto Gavaldón, que trata sobre acontecimientos en la relación del indio Macario (Ignacio López Tarso) con la Muerte (Enrique Lucero). Esta película es una adaptación basada en una novela de Bruno Traven (que a la vez esta está basada en un cuento de los Hermanos Grimm). Se ambienta en la época del virreinato de la Nueva España del siglo XVIII durante la víspera de un Día de Muertos. Fue ganadora de numerosos premios por sus valores de producción.