Servando González

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

Biography 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 Estudios Churubusco.

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. The films were taken from him right after the event and disappeared.

Selected filmography 1961: Yanco 1965: Black Wind (Viento Negro) 1965: The Fool Killer, starring Anthony Perkins and Dana Elcar 1968: The Scapular (El escapulario) 1977: The Chosen One (El Elegido) 1988: The Last Tunnel (supposedly the most expensive movie made in Mexico in the 1980s)