Flor Silvestre

Movie
Original title	Flor silvestre
Country of production	Mexico
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1943
length	94 minutes
Rod
Director	Emilio Fernández
script	Emilio Fernández Mauricio Magdaleno Fernando Robles (based on a novel)
production	Agustín J. Fink Emilio Gómez Muriel
music	Francisco Domínguez
camera	Gabriel Figueroa
cut	Jorge Bustos
occupation
Dolores del Río : Esperanza Pedro Armendáriz : Jose Luis Castro Emilio Fernández : Rogelio Torres Miguel Ángel Ferriz : Don Francisco Armando Soto La Marina : Reynaldo (as Chicote) Agustín Isunza : Nicanor Eduardo Arozamena : Melchor Mimí Derba : Dona Clara Margarita Cortés : Hermana de José Luis Manuel Dondé : Úrsulo Torres

Flor Silvestre is a1943 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández .

action

The melodrama tells the story of Esperanza and her husband José Luis Castro. The two married against the wishes of their father, the landowner Francisco, who was driving them from his farm. José Luis sets out to fight in the Mexican Revolution , finding out that the bandits Ursulo and Rogelio Torres murdered his father. He wants to take revenge, but Ursulo has already died of typhus . Nevertheless, he retrieves the corpse and hangs the dead body. Rogelio Torres takes José Luis' wife and son hostage, so that he surrenders and trades his life for that of the hostages. He is murdered, but Esperanza lives on and sees her son grow up, who joins the Mexican military. In the final sequence she holds her son in her arms and thus depicts the ideal of the new, reconciled society and looks over the land that once belonged to her father and has now passed into the community's possession.

background

The film Flor silvestre was produced by Films Mundiales . It is considered to be one of the most artistically successful films by Fernández. In it he dealt critically with the legacy of the revolution after he had already made a critical film with María Candelaria about the situation of the Indian population. In doing so, however, he did not abandon the representation of the revolutionary ideals, especially towards the end of the film. In the list of the 100 best Mexican films from 1919 to 1992, compiled by 25 film critics, filmmakers and historians and published in Somos magazine on July 16, 1994 , Flor silvestre ranks 30th.

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. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2005, ISBN 978-0786420834 .
• Andrea Noble: Mexican National Cinema. Taylor & Francis, 2005, ISBN 978-0415230100 .

Web links

• Flor Silvestre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Description of Flor silvestre on cinemexicano.mx

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Andrea Noble: "Mexican National Cinema." Taylor & Francis, 2005. p. 63.
2. ^ Carl J. Mora: "Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004." McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2005. p. 61.
3. ↑ Mora, p. 74.
4. ↑ David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001" . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. p. 64.