With a fructiferous career as a director of documentaries on his back, Nicolás Echeverría made his debut in fiction films with this awarded movie, where he narrates the vicissitudes that Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, a treasurer of the Spanish crown, experienced after the shipwreck of his expedition to the north of the country, when he was forced to live with the natives and learn their customs, to such degree that he became a medicine man. A film that criticizes the Conquest of Mexico, full with images of mystical reminiscences.

AUTHOR:

Nicolás Echeverría y Guillermo Sheridan, inspirados en las memorias y el texto Naufragios de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

DIRECTOR:

Nicolás Echevarría

CAST:

Juan Diego (Alvar Núñez), Carlos Castañón (Castillo), Daniel Giménez Cacho (Dorantes), Gerardo Villareal (Estebanico), Oscar Yoldi (Esquivel), Farnesio de Bernal (Fray Suárez), José Flores (Malacosa), Roberto Cobo (Lozoya)