Cinco fueron escogidos

Movie
Original title	Cinco fueron escogidos
Country of production	Mexico
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1943
length	111 minutes
Rod
Director	Herbert Kline
script	Rafael M. Muñoz Budd Schulberg (template) Xavier Villaurrutia
music	Raúl Lavista
camera	Jack Draper
occupation
Antonio Bravo Fernando Cortés : Babich, the hairdresser María Douglas : Señora Stojak Edmundo Espino : neighbor Conchita Gentil Arcos : Marfa María Gentil Arcos : Sra. Eugenia Dubrovko Ana María Hernández : Yugoslav villager Rafael Icardo : Alguacil María Elena Marqués : Ana Ricardo Montalbán : Stefan José Morcillo : Señor Aramich Joaquín Pardavé : Glinko Humberto Rodríguez : Cura Ángel T. Sala : Iván Banka Andrés Soler : Stojak Jorge Treviño : Yanko Julio Villarreal : Señor Anton Dubrovko

Cinco fueron escogidos (German: Five were chosen ) is a Mexican film from the year 1943. The director of this war film led Herbert Kline . Thescript basedon a template by Budd Schulberg was written by Rafael M. Muñoz and Xavier Villaurrutia .

The film takes place in the Wehrmacht occupied Yugoslavia . A Nazi official was killed in a small town, causing the occupiers to retaliate. Five of the town's residents are sentenced to death. They represent the different groups in the city: one of them is an aristocrat, one of the mayors, one of the city policemen, one a hairdresser and one an employee. In addition to these five, a homeless man is also to be executed. The families and neighbors endeavor to have the death sentences overturned. In the end, however, the National Socialist occupiers had the executions carried out.

There are reports that a version in English was filmed by Cinco for on escogidos at the same time. This will, among other things Art Smith , Victor Kilian , Howard Da Silva , Ricardo Montalbán and Leonid Kinskey have played. However, there is no information on whether this version of the film was ever released. Cinco fueron escogidos was produced by Alpha Films . It premiered in Mexico on July 8, 1943.

literature

• David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography. 1916 through 2001. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC et al. 2004, ISBN 0-7864-1537-1 .

Web links

• Cinco fueron escogidos in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography. 1916 through 2001. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC et al. 2004, p. 57.
2. ↑ Information on imdb.com, accessed on August 28, 2015.