The film starring Alfonso Herrera and Emiliano Zurita arrived on the Netflix platform and portrays one of Mexico’s historical scandals
“El baile de los 41” is a Mexican film directed by David Pablos and starring Alfonso Herrera, Emiliano Zurita and Mabel Cadena , it recently premiered on the Netflix platform and portrays a scandal that occurred in the history of Mexico, during the time scored by Porfirio Díaz.
The story behind "El baile de los 41" portrays the clandestine dances that were performed in Mexico at that time, where men attended and dressed as women, in clubs that were also hidden where they could live their homosexuality without having to hide. .
In one of the many dances that were held, Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, the so-called "Son-in-law of the nation" for having married Amada Díaz, daughter of President Porfirio Díaz , was very assiduous to attend, he was one of the 42 people who were arrested in a raid that took place on November 17 in a house in the Tabacalera neighborhood.
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The film precisely portrays this story that happened in 1901, in which of the 42 participants in that dance, only 41 were counted, since Porfirio Diaz’s son-in-law was released and it is said that he escaped through the roof of the house and the The president took it upon himself to silence anyone who spoke about the scandal that would fall on his family.
In the plot, Alfonso Herrera plays Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, who marries Amada Díaz, a character that Mabel Cadena gives life, his constant trips to this club run by the godson of Maximiliano de Habsburgo made his wife suspicious, for what commands him to follow.
At dawn on November 17, the soldiers entered the house discovering the men half dressed as women, one of them, Ignacio de la Torre and Mier; This fact is a before and after in the country’s gay community , even the number 41 is part of a culture of homophobia that still prevails in Mexico.
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Ignacio de la Torre y Mier died in 1918 from a complication in a hemorrhoid operation in New York City, while Amada Díaz lived until 1962 when she died at the age of 95.