The Mayor

(2012)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2012

Runtime: 81 мин

Country: Mexico

Director: Carlos Rossini, Diego Enrique Osorno, Emiliano Altuna

Cast: Mauricio Fernández Garza, Билл Клинтон, Octavio Paz, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, Фидель Кастро, Silvia Pinal, Beatriz Paredes, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Marta Sahagún

Plot

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.