El compadre Mendoza
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| Original title | El compadre Mendoza | ||
| Country of production | Mexico | ||
| original language | Spanish | ||
| Publishing year | 1933 | ||
| length | 85 minutes | ||
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| Director | Fernando de Fuentes | ||
| script | Juan Bustillo Oro | ||
| production |
José Castellot hijo Rafael Ángel Frías Antonio Prida Santacilia |
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| music | Manuel Castro Padilla | ||
| camera | Ross Fisher | ||
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El compadre Mendoza is a film drama by the Mexican director Fernando de Fuentes from 1933. The film is set at the time of the Mexican Revolution and deals with the relationship between the Compadre and its supporters. With El prisionero trece from the same year and Vámonos con Pancho Villa from 1935, El compadre Mendoza formed the de Fuentes revolutionary trilogy. This film received no international attention at the time of its release, but in later years, like Fernando de Fuentes, received positive reception from international criticism. Today El compadre Mendoza is considered a masterpiece of early Mexican cinema .
action
Rosalío Mendoza supported both Adolfo de la Huerta's government troops and the rebels Emiliano Zapatas during the Mexican Revolution . When he marries Dolores, some Zapata fighters are also present at the wedding. Soldiers of the Mexican army lie in wait for them, which is why Mendoza is sentenced to death by the Zapatistas. Before he can be shot, however, his friend Nieto, who is a Zapatas general, intervenes and spares his life. As a result, Mendoza asked him to become his compadre and godfather to his first son. When he gets into financial difficulties, however, he betrays Nieto to the government troops and receives money from them.
background
El compadre Mendoza was produced by Interamericana Film . The film was shot in the Churubusco-Atzteca film studio in Mexico City . After El prisionero trece, it was Fernando de Fuentes' second film from 1933 to deal with the Mexican Revolution. In 1935 de Fuentes finished his trilogy of revolution with Vámonos con Pancho Villa . At the time of publication El compadre Mendoza could not attract international attention, but later it developed into a classic of early Mexican cinema. The film thematizes the system of the Compadrazgo , in which a man declares that he would be the godfather of the future child and, in the event of the death of the father, take his position. This is a more serious and formal relationship than mere friendship.
literature
- David E. Wilt : The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC et al. 2004, ISBN 0-7864-1537-1 (reprint, with unchanged imprint. Ibid 2004 (printed 2010), ISBN 978-0- 7864-6122-6 ).
- Carl J. Mora: Mexican Cinema. Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004. 3rd edition. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC et al. 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2083-9 .
Web links
- El compadre Mendoza in the Internet Movie Database (English)