In this award-winning CINEMONDO film from Mexico, a humble violin player is more than he appears, using his harmless look to evade the eyes of the military as he covertly supports the campesina peasant guerilla movement.

Mexico, 98 mins.
Dir: Francisco Vargas

Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player, in order to get into the village and recover the ammunition hidden his corn field. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Arms and music play a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse which ultimately results in painful betrayal. - Film Movement

The Violin won awards at the Cannes, San Sebastian, Miami, and San Francisco film festivals.

“The Violin is one of the bravest, most amazing films to debut in Mexican cinema in many a year. I believe [Francisco Vargas’] approach is brilliant, original and unheard-of at the same time, and that he deserves indisputably to be sustained” – Guillermo Del Toro

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Link TV's CINEMONDO is a nationally broadcast, ground breaking world cinema series hosted and co-curated by Peter Scarlet, Artistic Director, Tribeca Film Festival (2003-2008), now Executive Director of the Middle East International Film Festival. CINEMONDO brings international cinema with great artistic, cultural and political value to the living rooms of Link TV’s American audiences.