La Llorona (film)

Movie
Original title	La Llorona
Country of production	Mexico
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1933
length	73 minutes
Rod
Director	Ramón Peón
script	A. Guzman Aguilera (author of the book) Fernando de Fuentes Carlos Noriega Hope
occupation
Ramón Pereda : Ricardo de Acuna Virginia Zurí : Ana Maria de Acuna Carlos Orellana : Mario Adriana Lamar : Ana Xicontencatl Esperanza del Real : Nana Goya Alberto Martí : Rodrigo de Cortes, Marques del Valle Paco Martínez : Don Fernando de Moncada María Luisa Zea : Doña Marina Alfredo del Diestro : Police Inspector Conchita Gentil Arcos : Sirvienta Antonio R. Frausto : Francisco

La Llorona is a1933 Mexican film directed by Ramón Peón . It is a film with elements of a period film , a fantasy film and a thriller . He tells the story of Ricardo and Ana Maria, who have a young son. Ricardo's brother-in-law, Fernando, warns him that many boys in his family have died at the age of four and shows him an old book. This is followed by a flashback to the colonial times, in which the story of Ana is told. She is reviled by her lover and father of her child, so she decides to kill her child. Then she commits suicide and appears as a haunted ghost. Then the film jumps back into the present. Fernando is murdered by a masked person while foiling the kidnapping of his nephew. The kidnapper escapes and another book appears. Another flashbacktellsthe story of La Malinche , whohelped Hernan Cortez to conquer Mexico. When her son is taken away from her, she goes mad and commits suicide. This ends the review and the film continues in the present. The masked person who murdered Fernando is shot dead by the police while trying to stab the child. It's about a housemaid whose plaintive spirit disappears at the end of the film.

The film refers to La Llorona , a mythological character widespread in Mexico. It is astonishing that he gives two apparently contradicting explanations about the origin of the spirit. La Llorona has been featured in various Mexican films, but only the 1959 film of the same name treated her as a central character. In the film by Ramó Peón, Ramón Pereda and Adriana Lamar appeared , who were a married couple, as usually together. Was produced La Llorona of Eco film . The film premiered in Mexico on May 25, 1933. The distributor Mariano Viamonte screened the film in Spanish in the USA in 1935.

literature

• David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001". McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson (NC) 2004, ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6 .

Web links

• La Llorona in the Internet Movie Database (English)