''Martín Garatuza'' is a 1935 Mexican
historical
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drama film
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directed by
Gabriel Soria and starring
Leopoldo 'Chato' Ortín,
Josefina Escobedo,
Juan José Martínez Casado and
Sofía Álvarez. It is based on the novel of the same title by
Vicente Riva Palacio
Vicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero better known as Vicente Riva Palacio (16 October 1832 in Mexico City – 22 November 1896 in Madrid) was a Mexican liberal politician, novelist, journalist, intellectual, historian, and militar ...
, inspired by the story of
Martín Garatuza
Martín Garatuza (born c. 1601, Puebla, Mexico) was a famous trickster whose frauds and escapes became legendary in colonial New Spain and whose name has passed into Spanish language, folklore and literature.
Garatuza, whose real name was Martín ...
.
[Richard p.512] The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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Francisco Gómez Palacio.
Cast
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Leopoldo 'Chato' Ortín as Martin Garatuza
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Josefina Escobedo as Esperanza
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Juan José Martínez Casado as Leonel de Salazar
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Sofía Álvarez as Carmen Valtierra
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Mimí Derba as Doña Juana de Carvajal
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Alberto Martí as Don Alonso de Rivera
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Paco Martínez
Paco is a Spanish nickname for Francisco. According to folk etymology, the nickname has its origins in Saint Francis of Assisi, who was the father of the Franciscan order; his name was written in Latin by the order as (father of the community); ...
as Don Pedro de Mejía
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Conchita Gentil Arcos as Doña Catalina
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Miguel Wimer as Baltasar de Salmerón
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Luis G. Barreiro as Notario
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Víctor Torres as Negro Teodoro
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Emilio Fernández
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (; 26 March 1904 – 6 August 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best know ...
as Unknown role
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María Luisa Zea as Unknown role
References
Bibliography
* Hershfield, Joanne; Maciel, David R. ''Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers''. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
* Richard, Charles Alfred. ''The Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen: An Interpretive Filmography from Silents Into Sound, 1898-1935''. Bloomsbury Academic, 1992.
External links
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1935 films
1930s Spanish-language films
Mexican black-and-white films
Mexican historical films
1930s historical films
Mexican drama films
1935 drama films
1930s Mexican films
Films directed by Gabriel Soria
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