Macario (1960) dir. Roberto Gavaldón

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition. Macario revolves around a man who, on his daily toil to provide for his impoverished family encounters Satan, God and Death. One of them offers a supernatural ability in exchange for a seemingly little price. Macario and his family experience the journey and consequences this new gift has brought to their lives. It s a beautiful cinematic timestamp of colonial México that involves it s folklore, class inequalities and the struggles of rural life. Based on the novel by B. Traven, which respectively is loosely based on Grimms Brother s Godfather Death. 2