Präriejäger in Mexiko

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Gojko Mitić Häuptling Bärenauge

Leon Niemczyk Pablo Cortejo

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller Der Kleine André

Erwin Berner Kaiser Maximilian

Helmut Schellhardt Benito Juarez