After surviving a heart attack in the early 1970s, Batievsky began writing and later directing a film about soccer starring the successful soccer player Hugo Sotil. The film was released on May 18, 1972 in fifteen theaters in Lima.[3] A week after its release, the director had the film removed from the billboard after receiving negative reviews.[4]
The music was in charge of the Peruvian group El Polen.[4]
Andrea Franco Batievsky, the director's granddaughter, oversaw the restoration process of Cholo and Mirage at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.[4][5]
