| Cuatro contra el mundo | |
| Director: | Alejandro Galindo |
| Producer: | César Santos Galindo |
| Starring: | Víctor Parra Leticia Palma |
| Music: | Gustavo César Carrión |
| Cinematography: | Agustín Martínez Solares |
| Editing: | Carlos Savage |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Language: | Spanish |
Cuatro contra el mundo (Spanish: Four Against the World) is a 1950 Mexican film noir crime drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo,[1] [2] who also wrote the screenplay alongside Gunther Gerzso, and starring Víctor Parra and Leticia Palma, about a gang that raids a van that carries money. The film is considered as a prototype for Mexican film noir.
Film critic Emilio García Riera states that the film has a strong influence on the left-wing politics of director Alejandro Galindo. He stated that the film allowed him to represent a crime in a relatively small scenario as an expression of reactionary tendencies.[3]
Cuatro contra el mundo is considered a prototype for a Mexican version of film noir, a genre popularized in the United States in the 1940s.[4]
Cuatro contra el mundo has been restored in cooperation with the film library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Fundación Televisa, the Cineteca Nacional and the Morelia International Film Festival. The restored version was part of the Forum section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, after the head of this section, Christoph Terhechte, had seen it at the Morelia International Film Festival.[5]