Screenplay: Juan Mora Catlett, based on an Aztec legend

Cinematography: Toni Kuhn

Film Editing: Jorge Vargas

Music: Antonio Zepeda

Production: Juan Mora Catlett, Jorge Prior, Federico Laurent

Production Company: IMCINE, CONACULTA, Producciones Volcán, FFCC, José Revueltas Film Production Cooperative Society, DDF, Directorate of Film Activities of the UNAM, SEP

Cast: Rodrigo Puebla, Rafael Cortés, Socorro Avelar, Soledad Ruiz, Amado Zumaya, Marco Antonio Novelo, José Chávez Trowe, Martín Palomares, Marcial Salinas, Roberto Ruy, Yomo Tlazotalli, Jairo Marques Padilla, María Luisa Ávila, Soledad Ruiz, Antonio Zámano , Sergio Santamaría, Felipe Solís, Enrique Guijarro, Antonio Zepeda, Ricardo Padilla, Damián Delgado, Víctor Vieyra, Jonathan Kano, Juan Diego del Clero, Ulises Román, Jorge Zapote, Ramiro Huerta

Return to Aztlán is the first fiction feature film that deals entirely with the immemorial legends of the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mexico, which assail our imagination through the ruins of gigantic pyramids and magnificent works of art. Spoken in Nahuatl, the ancient classical language of the Mexicans, the story takes place in the 15th century, before the Spanish conquest, and narrates the adventures of a magical journey to Aztlán, the mythical place of origin of the Aztecs carried out by the emissaries of their Lord, Motecuzoma, and by a humble farmer named Ollin, in order to end a terrible four-year drought. This in a world where myth and magic are confused with reality and extreme violence coexists with the highest sophistication. The film was shot in archaeological zones and the music is made with original pre-Columbian instruments. The script was developed with a grant from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation and is based on five years of research advised by archaeologists.

Awards and honours

1992:

Grand Prize of the Jury at the VIII Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy