Shark Hunters

Aurelio is a fisherman who hunts sharks. He works on the coast, sends what he earns to his family in the city and with the same money keeps Manela, his young lover there on the coast. The cost of running two lives at once grows heavier with time. One day he decides to move to the big city. The film sets the hardness of the work at sea beside the tangle of life on land. It neither justifies Aurelio nor condemns him; it shows how little his decision can be taken back. The labour itself on the Mexican coast holds a place of its own in the account. Julio Aldama and Dacia González appear in Luis Alcoriza’s hundred minute Mexican film, completed in 1963.