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Past and present collide as award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited from her grandmother, daughter of Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became Mexico's president in 1924, in El General. Help spread the word about the film through the following ways.

Host a Screening - For Free!

Join POV's Community Network to borrow El General for free screenings in your community, classroom, staff trainings, or workshops.

REGISTER: Join the POV Community Network.
ACTIVATE: Check your inbox for an activation link and temporary password (email events@pov.org if you do not receive this email).
REQUEST: Log in to your POV account and click "Create an Event" to register your screening(s) and request the film.
SCREEN: We'll send the DVD to you about one month prior to your event, then you send it back to us after the event. It's that easy!

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[A] remarkable documentary, provocative and impressionistic, based on questions rather than assertions...9 out of 10 stars.

— Cynthia Fuchs,PopMatters

A tour de force of cinematic imagination bristling with beauty, contradiction and the epic scope of Mexico's last 100 years of history.

— Cara Mertes, Sundance Documentary Institute

For seven years General Plutarco Elías Calles has loomed indestructible in the Mexican picture, like a Toltec pyramid — huge, harsh, mysterious. His name adds naturally to the list of dictatorial gladiators that the world watches with mixed feelings...He has been called a Mexican Mussolini, an Indian von Hindenburg, a Latin American Lenin.

— Anita Brenner, The New York Times, 1937