Gregorio Walerstein

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Gregorio Walerstein Weinstock (born February 22, 1913 in Mexico City , † February 24, 2002 there ) was a Mexican film producer and screenwriter.

Walerstein attended school in Guadalajara and completed an economics degree at the Universidad Nacional de México . He then worked first as an accounting assistant, later as an employee in the company of one of his professors and opened his own accounting office in 1936.

His real interest, however, had heard over the film, and in 1941 he produced with director José Benavides Jr. his first feature film, Lo que el viento Trajo . In the same year he founded the film production company Filmex with Gonzalo Elvira and Simón Wishnack , where the films El conde de Montecristo , Alejandra and El baisano Jalil (1942), Adiós juventud (1943), El sombrero de tres picos and El gran Makakikus (1944) and Los nietos de Don Venancio (1946).

Later founded Walerstein own film production, Cima film , also with Jesús Grovas , Carlos Carriedo Galván and Salvador Elizondo Pani the Películas Mexicanas SA , the first company dedicated to the distribution of Mexican film in South America. In total, Walerstein produced more than 300 films, and he also wrote numerous screenplays under the pseudonym Mauricio Wall . In 1992 he was honored with the Medal of Merit of the Asociación de Productores de Películas , in 1994 he received the Ariel Especial in gold from the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas and in 1998 the Medalla Salvador Toscano and the Heraldo Especial .

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SURNAME Walerstein, Gregorio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walerstein Weinstock, Gregorio; Wall, Mauricio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2002
Place of death Mexico City , Mexico