Tarahumara (1965)

The anthropologist Raúl goes to collect data and photographs of a community of Tarahumara Indigenous people, who make his work difficult because they fear continuing to be exploited by white and mestizo men. Tomás, who runs a sawmill, wants them to work for him against their will. Raúl befriends Corachi and the rest of the community and, in light of the dispossession they are suffering, decides to help them by sending articles to newspapers in Mexico City to make their situation known. He then prepares to travel to the capital with the group’s leader, Muraca, who is mysteriously murdered in a way that makes it look like suicide. Raúl then decides to take Corachi, but on the way, Raúl dies unexpectedly. The explorers kill the person who was going to report them. The community mourns his death, and another anthropologist, who has become the person in charge of the sawmill, decides to continue Raúl’s work, setting off for the capital with the young man’s body.