El Violin

Movie
Original title	El Violin
Country of production	Mexico
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	2005
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Francisco Vargas Quevedo
script	Francisco Vargas Quevedo
production	Ángeles Castro , Hugo Rodríguez
music	Cuauhtémoc Tavira , Armando Rosas
camera	Martín Boege Paré
cut	Francisco Vargas Quevedo Ricardo Garfias
occupation
Ángel Tavira : Plutarco Hidalgo (Don Plutarco) Gerardo Taracena : Genaro Dagoberto Gama : Captain Mario Garibaldi : Lucio Fermín Martínez : Lieutenant Silverio Palacios : Commander Cayetano Octavio Castro : Zacarías Mercedes Hernández : Jacinta Gerardo Juarés : Pedro Ángeles Cruz : leader of the guerrilla 1 Norma Pablo : leader of the guerrilla 2 Ariel Galvan : Joaquín Amorita Rasgado : prostitute María Elena Olivares : Doña Lupe Esteban Castellanos : Manuel

El Violín is a Mexican feature film from 2005 . He won numerous prizes, including a. the Grand Prize at the Miami International Film Festival 2007. At the Cannes Film Festival received Ángel Tavira the award for best male performer. El Violín also won the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences .

action

The old farmer Plutarco Hidalgo lives from growing maize . On the side, he makes some money by going to town and street music with his son and grandson. Although he lacks his right hand, he is a very good violinist. Along with many other residents of their village, they support the guerrillas that are fighting the military junta. When they return from the city, they encounter fleeing village neighbors. The village was attacked by the military. About twenty residents, including Plutarco's daughter-in-law, were captured and killed shortly afterwards. Plutarco returns alone to the occupied village to get ammunition hidden in his cornfield. With his violin he entertains the captain, who is in command there. The officer, who comes from a humble background, asks him to come back every day, play him over dinner and teach him to play the violin. Plutarco succeeds in smuggling most of the ammunition out of his violin case, with a guard who apparently sympathizes with the guerrillas still slipping him weapons. Finally, the hiding place where Plutarco left his violin is discovered by the soldiers. Several guerrillas, including Plutarco's son, are brought in as prisoners. The captain orders Plutarco to play, which Plutarco, torture and death before his eyes, refuses. At the end you see the grandson singing about the courage of the resistance fighters with a guitar.

criticism

Brutal military repression looks the same everywhere, and Francisco Vargas' sparkling and poethical film "El Violín" opens a sad cry for help from the oppressed . Hollywood Reporter

Web links

• The Violin in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• El Violín on Moviepilot
• El Violín in the Lexicon of International Films

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for El Violín . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 689 DVD).
2. ^ Miami festival hands out honors . In: variety . Retrieved November 22, 2011.
3. ↑ Ariel Awards 2007 Winners . In: altfg.com . Retrieved November 22, 2011.