Diaz the bullfighter

Movie
German title	Diaz the bullfighter
Original title	¡Ora Ponciano!
Country of production	Mexico
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1937
length	101 minutes
Rod
Director	Gabriel Soria
script	Pepe Ortiz, Elvira de la Mora
production	Gabriel Soria
music	Lorenzo Barcelata
camera	Alex Phillips
occupation
Jesús Solórzano : Ponciano Díaz Consuelo Frank : Rosario Leopoldo 'Chato' Ortín : Juanón Carlos López Moctezuma : Lolo Mercedes Azcarate : Mercedes Carlos Villarías : Don Luis Martínez del Arco Maruja Gómez : Maruja María Calvo : Aunt Pilar Elvira Azcarate : Rosario, child Pepe del Río : Ponciano, child Lorenzo Barcelata : Lorenzo Consuelo Segarra : Chonita

Diaz the bullfighter ( Spanish original title: ¡Ora Ponciano! ) Is a Mexican film from 1937. The melodramatic biography with western elements was directed by Gabriel Soria .

Ponciano Díaz, played by Jesús Solórzano , and Rosario, Consuelo Frank , have been in love since childhood, although they both live in different worlds: Rosario's father is a rich landowner, while Ponciano's father is just a simple farmer. When the two grow up, Ponciano saves his lover from a bull and then decides to become a bullfighter . While Ponciano is touring the country in this role, Rosario gives birth to a daughter. Her father forces her to enter a monastery so that her mother can raise the child. Some time passed until at the end of the film Ponciano returned, freed Rosario from the monastery and finally married.

The film Diaz the bullfighter is based on Ponciano Díaz (1858-1897), who was a well-known bullfighter in his homeland at the end of the 19th century. However, his private life may have been far less melodramatic than the film shows. The main actor, Jesús Solórzano, was also a bullfighter. The film was produced by Gabriel Soria with his production company Producciones Soria . In Mexico, where the film premiered on April 16, 1937, it was distributed by Columbia Pictures Mexico ; in December 1937, Cinexport Distributing brought it to theaters in the United States in its original language, and in August 1941 the work found its way into the cinemas of the Third Reich.

literature

• David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001 . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6 .

Web links

• Diaz of the bullfighter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Film clip from Diaz the bullfighter (¡Ora Ponciano!) On Youtube.

Individual evidence

1. ^ David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001 . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004, p. 31.
2. ↑ Information in the IMDB, accessed on January 1, 2015.