Ismael Rodríguez (director)
Ismael Rodríguez Ruelas (born October 19, 1917 in Mexico City , † August 7, 2004 there ) was a Mexican film director , screenwriter and film producer .
Life
Rodríguez was born in Mexico City and moved to Los Angeles with his parents and siblings in 1926 , but returned to Mexico in 1931. In the same year Rodríguez appeared as a minor actor in the feature film Santa and also took on minor roles in the film in the following years. His main interest, however, was initially in the sound, as his two older brothers Joselito and Roberto had been experimenting with their own sound system for the film for some time. Rodríguez founded the production company Películas Rodríguez with both of them and finally shot his first film ¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! which appeared in 1943. This was followed by more than 60 films as a director, which made Rodríguez “one of the most important filmmakers of the golden age of Mexican film in the 1940s and 1950s”.
Rodríguez's long-term collaboration with the star of Mexican films, Pedro Infante, was a defining factor . A high point was the "film trilogy for the working class", Nosotros, los pobres (1948), Ustedes, los ricos (1948) and Pepe El Toro (1953), in which Infante took on the role of carpenter Pepe El Toro. One of Rodríguez's most important films is also Tizoc, about the ruler of the same name . It was the last collaboration between Rodríguez and Pedro Infante, who died in a plane crash in 1957. Tizoc ran in 1957 at the Berlin International Film Festival in the competition for the Golden Bear , won the Silver Bear for Best Actor (posthumously to Infante) and received a Golden Globe Award in 1958 in the category of best foreign language film . Rodríguez's next film, Storm over Mexico, was also internationally successful, so he received an invitation to the Cannes International Film Festival in 1959 , where it screened in the competition for the Palme d' Or.
Rodríguez also worked several times with Pedro Armendáriz , for example he cast him as Pancho Villa in the films Así era Pancho Villa (1957), Devil General Pancho Villa (1960) and Pancho Villa - Victory and Treason (1960). Rodríguez's film Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) based on the novel La mayordomía by Rogelio Barriga Rivas was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film (Samuel Goldwyn Award) as a Mexican entry in 1962 .
Rodríguez, who worked in film well into his old age, not only directed but also wrote the script for most of his films. He made some of the films with his production company Películas Rodríguez. In 1992 he was honored with the Ariel de Oro Film Prize for his contributions to Mexican film and in 2002 he received the Salvador Toscano Medal of the Cineteca Nacional for his life's work.
Filmography (selection)
Films as a director:
- 1943: ¡Qué lindo es Michoacán!
- 1948: Los tres huastecos
- 1948: Nosotros, los pobres
- 1948: Ustedes, los ricos
- 1950: Sobre las olas
- 1953: Pepe El Toro
- 1956: The Curse of Monte Bravo (The Beast of Hollow Mountain)
- 1956: Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
- 1957: Tizoc
- 1957: Así era Pancho Villa
- 1959: Storm over Mexico (La cucaracha)
- 1960: Devil General Pancho Villa (Pancho Villa y la Valentina)
- 1960: Pancho Villa - Victory and betrayal (Cuando ¡Viva Villa ..! Es la muerte)
- 1961: Los Hermans Del Hierro
- 1962: Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante)
- 1968: Autopsia de un fantasma
- 1970: Faltas a la moral
- 1977: Somos del otro Laredo
- 1986: ¡Yerba sangrienta!
- 1989: Dos tipas de cuidado
- 1997: Reclusorio
- 1999: Reclusorio III
Awards
- 1948: Nomination Premio Ariel , Best Original Screenplay, for Los tres García
- 1949: Nominations for Premio Ariel , Best Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, for Los tres huastecos
- 1950: Nomination for Golden Lion , Venice International Film Festival , for Sobre las olas
- 1954: Nomination Premio Ariel , Best Director, for Pepe El Toro
- 1955: Nomination Premio Ariel , Best Original Screenplay, for Maldita ciudad (un drama cómico)
- 1958: Premio Ariel for the best film for Tizoc
- 1961: Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival , for Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante)
- 1963: Nomination for the Golden Globe, Best Director , for Los hermanos Del Hierro
- 1992: Ariel de Oro for his life's work
- 2002: Salvador Toscano Medal from the Cineteca Nacional for his life's work
Web links
- Ismael Rodríguez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ismael Rodríguez . In: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen: Brown Celluloid: 1894-1959 . Vantage Press, 2003, p. 358.
- ^ "L'un des cinéastes les plus importants de l'Age d'or du cinéma mexicain, pendant les années 40 et 50" Cf. Mexique: mort du cinéaste Ismael Rodriguez . In: sda - Swiss Dispatch Agency / French, August 8, 2004.
- ^ Scott L. Baugh: Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends . ABC-CLIO, 2012, p. 139.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodríguez, Ismael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodríguez Ruelas, Ishmael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 2004 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |