Mexico in the 1870s. The French expeditionary force lands in Mexico. Emperor Napoleon III of France and local conservatives establish a monarchy in the country and decide to place their protégé, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, on the Mexican throne. In the ensuing war of national liberation, the freedom-loving Indians, the Maztecs, led by their chief Bear's Eye, side with the legitimate deposed president of Mexico, Benito Juárez.
Directed by Hans Knötzsch
Gojko Mitić
Häuptling Bärenauge
Leon Niemczyk
Pablo Cortejo
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
Der Kleine André
Erwin Berner
Kaiser Maximilian
Helmut Schellhardt
Benito Juarez
Rolf Mey-Dahl
General Merija
