Cuatro contra el mundo
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Cuatro contra el mundo |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 99 minutes |
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| Director | Alejandro Galindo |
| script | Alejandro Galindo Gunther Gerzso Wendland |
| production | César Santos Galindo |
| music | Gustavo César Carrión |
| camera | Agustín Martínez Solares |
| cut | Carlos Savage |
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Cuatro contra el mundo (German: Four against the world ) is a Mexican film from 1950. This detective film was directed by Alejandro Galindo , who alsowrote the scripttogether with Gunther Gerzso Wendland . The film is considered a major work of film noir in Mexico.
At the beginning of the film, two drivers of a money truck collect the proceeds from a brewery. Their transport vehicle is then stopped at a construction site, where they are attacked by four robbers, whose leader is Máximo. The two drivers of the money transporter are shot and the four gangsters, one of whom was shot, flee. The gang find shelter in the attic apartment of Lucrecia, Máximo's friend, while the police look for them under increasing pressure from the press. There the wounded is cared for, but he dies on the first night. The following night he is buried in a building pit by his three accomplices. The police searched the residential area and the apartment in which the criminals are hiding, but could not find anything suspicious. Tony subsequently leaves the apartment, in which, however, he leaves his share of the loot behind. His girlfriend is looking for him and therefore appears at Lucrecia's door, but then leaves the apartment again. Meanwhile, the police are able to assign a scrap of cloth that they had seized as evidence to a tailor's shop, where they run into Tony. He escapes and is run over by a truck. Lucrecia turns away from Máximo, who treats her violently. She opens up to Paco, who also shows her interest, and tells him that her boyfriend wants to cheat on him and keep all the booty to himself. There is a conflict between Máximo and Paco, in the course of which Paco shoots the former. After the body of the first robber is found in the course of construction, the police return and pursue Paco and Lucrecia over the roofs. The two are caught and Paco shot. At the end of the film, Lucrecia holds his lifeless body in her arms.
In Cuatro contra el mundo is a Mexican implementation of film noir as it had become popular in the 1940s in the United States. This film is considered a prototype of this genre. The film was produced in Mexico City by Producciones Azteca and premiered in Mexico on April 6, 1950. At the award ceremony of the Premio Ariel in 1951, Cuatro contra el mundo was nominated three times: Manuel Dondé as best supporting actor, Agustín Martínez Solares for the camera and Gunther Gerzso Wendland for the set. However, none of the awards could be won. Cuatro contra el mundo was restored in a cooperation between the Filmoteca de la UNAM , Fundación Televisa , Cineteca Nacional and the Festival Internacional de Cine en Morelia . The restored version was shown in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 after the head of this section, Christoph Terhechte , saw him in Morelia.
literature
- David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001 . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6 .
Web links
- Cuatro contra el mundo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Data sheet of the Berlinale 2015 on the film