The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw support for Maximilian. Carlotta goes to France to plead with Napoleon, to no avail.
"The story of Benito Juarez, the Mexican leader who carried the fight for freedom and liberty in the 1880's."
"El emperador Maximiliano llega a México para instaurar un gobierno imperial y tropieza con la oposición, primero oculta y después abierta, de Benito Juárez. Maximiliano es un idealista que ha sido víctima de la astucia de Napoleón III. El emperador cree realmente en las ventajas del sistema monárquico, mientras que Juárez lucha apasionadamente por la república. Cuando Francia retira su apoyo, la emperatriz Carlota viaja a implorarle su ayuda a Napoleón III"@es
"The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw support for Maximilian. Carlotta goes to France to plead with Napoleon, to no avail."@en
"The stirring account of Mexico's fearless leader Benito Pablo Juarez, the legendary man who carried the fight for freedom and liberty for his people in the 1800's over the despotic French Empire."@en
"A revolutionary leader causes the downfall of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico."@en
"A revolutionary leader causes the downfall of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico."
"The story of three men, Benito Juarez, Napoleon III, and Emperor Maximilian, driven by political passions. And of a woman, Empress Carlota, driven to madness."@en
"Dramatizes the triumphant resistance of President Benito Juárez and his followers against the attempt by Louis Napoleon to install Maximillian von Hapsburg as Emperor of Mexico. Designed to be used with a text of correlated readings in a program of individualized instruction."@en
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