Servando González Hernández (15 May 1923 – 5 October 2008) was a Mexican

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. He died in Mexico City on 5 October 2008, at the age of 85. Servando González started as an apprentice (gofer) at Estudios Clasa, a Mexican film studio. He climbed up the ladder of the movie industry and became head of the film laboratory of

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. In 1968, as chief documentary filmmaker for the government of Mexico, he was asked to set up cameras on the Mexico City plaza, and had not anticipated he was about to film the

Tlatelolco massacre On October 2, 1968 in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City, the Mexican Armed Forces opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas who were protesting the upcoming 1968 Summer Olympics. The Mexican government an ...

. The films were taken from him right after the event and disappeared. Servando González was the winner of 25 awards with ''Yanco'' cinematographic film and participated as co-star in dozens of films of the Mexican Golden Age with the actor Alberto Ramírez. He was characterized as a talented actor, director, writer and film producer, according to his official biographer Wilbert Alonzo-Cabrera, former vice president of Association of Entertainment JournalistD (ACE), of New York.

Selected filmography

* 1961: ''Yanco'' * 1965: '' Black Wind'' (''Viento Negro'') * 1965: ''

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'', starring

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and

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* 1977: ''The Chosen One'' (''El Elegido'') * 1988: '' The Last Tunnel'' (supposedly the most expensive movie made in Mexico in the 1980s)

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* 1923 births 2008 deaths * Ariel Award winners Best Director Ariel Award winners Mexican film directors People from Veracruz (city) {{Mexico-film-director-stub