Roberto Gavaldón

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Roberto Gavaldón Leyva (born June 7, 1909 in Jiménez , † September 4, 1986 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter .

Life

Gavaldón was born in Jiménez and moved to Mexico City with his family in 1919. He went to Los Angeles where he studied dentistry. He began to be interested in the film and to take on his first assistant work before the return to Mexico in the early 1930s. Here he was seen as an extra in various Mexican films and gained film experience as an assistant director for Gabriel Soria and Robert Quigley, among others . With Quigley, Gavaldón made his first own film in Koregie in 1936, Cielito lindo . This was followed, among other things, by La tierra del mariachi (Koregie with Raúl de Anda ) as well as with El conde de Montecristo (with Chano Urueta , 1942; after Alexandre Dumas the Elder ) and Naná (with Celestino Gorostiza , 1944; after Émile Zola ) literary material.

His debut feature film and his first major success in his home country was La barraca in 1945, based on the novel of the same name by the Spaniard Vicente Blasco Ibáñez . In addition to Dolores del Río , Gavaldón also cast numerous Spaniards in the film who had emigrated to Mexico due to the Spanish Civil War . The film received numerous prizes and nominations at the award ceremony of the first Premio Ariel , including the award for Best Film . At the first Premio Ariel, Gavaldón was also represented with his film Corazones de México ; El socio and Rayando el sol received awards and nominations the following year.

In the course of his career, Gavaldón often worked with screenwriter Javier Revueltas and cameraman Gabriel Figueroa . His films were often devoted to the dark, the obscure and the mystical, as exemplified by the Macario , which appeared in 1960 and which was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film the following year . In addition, Gavaldón was considered a "master of melodrama".

In addition to his film work, Gabaldón was also politically active. He became a co-founder of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica (STPC) and headed the Sección de Directores as General Secretary. In the 1950s he also served as a congressman.

Roberto Gavaldón was considered a new filmmaker in the 1940s, who excelled with biting and, in contrast to the popular cinema of Emilio Fernández, also unsentimental films. The stylistic device of repetition is essential for his films; his films are characterized by "extreme perfection". In the 1960s, his importance as a filmmaker began to decline, the assessment of his work was increasingly negative, so the coolness of his style and the technical perfection of the images were criticized. Gavaldón was considered a "static director", and for a long time he was overshadowed by great directors of the golden age of Mexican film such as Fernández, Ismael Rodríguez and Julio Bracho . In the last years of his life, Gabaldón, who shot until the late 1970s, finally withdrew completely from public to private life and died in Mexico City in 1986. Only shortly before his death did a rediscovery and positive re-evaluation of his oeuvre begin. In 1986 he was honored with the Salvador Toscano Medal of the Cineteca Nacional for his life's work.

Filmography

As a director:

  • 1945: La barraca
  • 1946: The Other (La otra)
  • 1946: Rayando el sol
  • 1946: El socio
  • 1947: La diosa arrodillada
  • 1947: La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
  • 1948: Han matado a Tongolele
  • 1948: A la sombra del puente
  • 1948: Adventures of Casanova
  • 1950: Rosauro Castro
  • 1950: La casa chica
  • 1951: criminal hands (En la palma de tu mano)
  • 1951: Deseada
  • 1951: Mi vida por la tuya
  • 1952: Terminal del Valle de México
  • 1952: El rebozo de Soledad
  • 1952: La noche avanza
  • 1953: El niño y la niebla
  • 1953: Las tres perfectas casadas
  • 1953: Acuérdate de vivir
  • 1954: Sombra verde
  • 1954: Camelia
  • 1955: The small rebel (The Littlest Outlaw)
  • 1955: De carne somos
  • 1955: Después de la tormenta
  • 1956: Viva revolución
  • 1956: The Rebel Bride (La escondida)
  • 1956: Historia de un amor
  • 1958: La rebelión de la sierra
  • 1958: El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
  • 1958: Ash Wednesday (Miércoles de ceniza)
  • 1958: Aquí está Heraclio Bernal
  • 1959: Riot of emotions (Flor de mayo (Topolobampo))
  • 1960: Macario
  • 1960: El siete de copas
  • 1961: Rosa blanca
  • 1963: Días de otoño
  • 1964: El gallo de oro
  • 1965: Los hijos que yo soñé
  • 1967: Rio Blanco
  • 1970: Las figuras de arena
  • 1970: La vida inútil de Pito Pérez
  • 1972: Doña Macabra
  • 1973: Don Quixote cabalga de nuevo
  • 1974: La madrastra
  • 1976: El hombre de los hongos
  • 1977: La playa vacía
  • 1977: Las cenizas del diputado
  • 1979: Cuando tejen las arañas

Awards (selection)

  • 1946: Golden Ariel and Silver Ariel for Best Director, Premio Ariel , for La baracca
  • 1947: Nomination for the Golden Ariel and the nomination for the Silver Ariel for Best Director, Premio Ariel, for The Others
  • 1950: Nomination for a Golden Lion , Venice International Film Festival 1950, for Rosauro Castro
  • 1952: Nomination for Golden Lion, Venice International Film Festival 1952, for El rebozo de Soledad
  • 1952: Golden Ariel and Silver Ariel for Best Director, Premio Ariel, for En la palma de tu mano
  • 1953: Nomination for the Grand Prix of the Festival, Cannes International Film Festival 1953 , for Las tres perfectas casadas
  • 1954: Nomination for the Grand Prix of the Festival, Cannes International Film Festival 1954 , for El niño y la niebla
  • 1954: Golden Ariel and Silver Ariel for Best Director and Best Screenplay, premio Ariel, for El niño y la niebla
  • 1954: Nomination for a Golden Lion, Venice International Film Festival 1954, for Camelia
  • 1955: Nomination for the Golden Lion, Venice International Film Festival 1955, for Después de la tormenta
  • 1956: Nomination for the Golden Palm , Cannes International Film Festival 1956 , for La escondida
  • 1958: Nomination for Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival 1958 , for Miércoles de ceniza
  • 1959: Nomination for the Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival 1959 , for Flor de mayo (Topolobampo)
  • 1960: Nomination for the Palme d'Or, Cannes International Film Festival 1960 , for Macario
  • 1986: Salvador Toscano Medal from the Cineteca Nacional for his life's work

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roberto Gavaldón on biografiasyvidas.com
  2. ^ A b Patricia Torres San Martín: Roberto Gavaldón . In: Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, Ana M. Lopez (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures . Routledge, 2002, p. 632.
  3. ↑ a b c Roberto Gavaldón ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx
  4. ^ Liam White: Mitchum, Mexico and the Good Neighbors Era . Andrews UK, 2014, unpag.
  5. ↑ "extremo perfeccionismo"; Cf. Roberto Gavaldón ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx
personal data
SURNAME Gavaldón, Roberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gavaldón Leyva, Roberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Jiménez
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1986
Place of death Mexico city