El prisionero trece
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| Original title | El prisonero trece |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 76 minutes |
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| Director | Fernando de Fuentes |
| script |
Fernando de Fuentes Miguel Ruiz |
| production |
Gustavo Sáenz de Sicilia Luis Sánchez Tello |
| music | Guillermo A. Posadas |
| camera | Ross Fisher |
| cut | Aniceto Ortega |
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El prisionero trece 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 behavior of a drunkard colonel who has his own son executed in a dream. With El compadre Mendoza from the same year and Vámonos con Pancho Villa from 1935, El prisionero trece formed the de Fuentes trilogy of revolution. The film was produced by the Compañía Nacional Productora de Películas .
action
The alcoholic Colonel Julián Carrasco is left by his wife Marta with their son Juan. Time goes by and Juan becomes a young adult and has a lover Lola. When an imprisoned insurgent is about to be executed, the Colonel accepts a bribe and releases him. However, he now has to have someone else executed and randomly chooses his own son Juan, whom he does not recognize. Both his wife Marta and their lover Lola visit the Colonel and inform him about the true identity of the chosen victim. But it is too late to change the victim before the execution so that Juan is executed. But then it turns out that it was just a nightmare caused by excessive drinking, and Colonel Carrasco renounces alcohol.
background
The ending of El prisionero trece , which turns out to be just a dream, was a concession to the Mexican government's censorship . The film scholar Emilio García Riera explained that this change means that the colonel has to be foresighted, since the framework plot is set before the revolution and he foresees it in his dream, as well as the role that Adolfo de la Huerta plays in it. The remake Sentenciado a muerte of El prisonero trece was filmed in 1950 .
literature
- David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001" . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6
- Carl J. Mora, "Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004." McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2005. ISBN 978-0786420834
Web links
- El prisionero trece in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001" . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. page 22.