The Cinematic "Robbery": El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato
In the main gallery, the mummies stood in their glass sentinels. El Cuervo signaled to his team. One operative, a woman with nimble fingers, began the delicate process of picking the lock on the Frenchwoman’s case. The other, a mountain of a man, stood guard, his eyes scanning the gloom. robbery of the mummies of guanajuato top
In 1970, the acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog traveled to Guanajuato to shoot scenes for his film Even Dwarfs Started Small . He entered the museum, then a much more chaotic and unregulated space than it is today. Herzog filmed the mummies extensively, but he did so in a way that the local authorities had not anticipated. He focused his lens on the most disturbing figures—the "screaming" mummies—and utilized clever camera angles to create a sense of horror and existential dread. The Cinematic "Robbery": El Robo de las Momias