Präriejäger in Mexiko

Overview

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.

Cast

Gojko Mitić

Häuptling Bärenauge

Leon Niemczyk

Pablo Cortejo

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

Der Kleine André

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Erwin Berner

Kaiser Maximilian

Helmut Schellhardt

Benito Juarez

Rolf Mey-Dahl

General Merija