''El ahijado de la muerte'' ("The Godson of Death") is a 1946 Mexican film. It was the first film to be written by

Luis Alcoriza Luis Alcoriza de la Vega (September 5, 1918 – December 3, 1992) was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. Alcoriza was born in Spain and, exiled because of the Spanish Civil War, established himself in Mexico from 1940 ...

, co-written with his wife

Janet Alcoriza Janet Alcoriza (born Janet Riesenfeld; January 4, 1918 – November 12, 1998), also known as Raquel Rojas, was an American screenwriter and actress of Austrian and Scotch-Irish descent who spent most of her career in Mexico. She contributed to mo ...

, loosely based on the story by the

brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...

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* 1946 films 1940s Spanish-language films Mexican black-and-white films Mexican fantasy films 1946 fantasy films Films directed by Norman Foster 1940s Mexican films Spanish-language fantasy films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub