Rosaura Revueltas

Rosaura Revueltas Sánchez (born August 6, 1910 in Ciudad Lerdo , Durango , † April 30, 1996 in Cuernavaca ) was a Mexican actress and author.

Life

Rosaura Revueltas was a daughter of the large Revueltas Sánchez family . When the family went to Mexico City, Rosaura completed an acting and ballet training. She belonged to a folk dance group and played her first small film roles. From 1946 she played in movies, initially directed by Emilio Fernández . In 1953 she was honored with the silver Premio Ariel for her performance in "El Rebozo de Soledad" .

Revueltas played the role of the miner's wife Esperanza Quintero in Salt of the Earth ( Salt of the Earth ), a feature film about striking Mexican-American miners in New Mexico . Herbert Biberman originally envisaged his wife Gale Sondergaard for the role of, but then decided on a Spanish-speaking actress. In the McCarthy era she was arrested while filming as an illegal immigrant and allegedly for alleged communist contacts, deported to Mexico and placed on the Hollywood blacklist . The rest of the feature film had to be shot with a film double. "Salt of the Earth" remained Revuelta's only US feature film in which she starred. In 1956 she was awarded the French Étoile de Cristal as Best Foreign Actress for her role as Esperanza Quintero .

From 1957 to 1960 she lived in Germany. There she worked as a playwright for the Berliner Ensemble . Back in Mexico, she taught acting classes and wrote other plays before moving to Cuba for a while . After she was taken off the Hollywood blacklist, she starred in Mina, viento de libertad in 1976 , shortly afterwards also the role of Tía Licha in Lo Mejor de Teresa and in 1977 her last acting role in Balún Canán .

After she gave up acting, she worked for the Berliner Ensemble and in Cuba. She was also a jury member at international film festivals, including the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival .

In Mexico she gave yoga lessons and in 1979 published the family biography Los Revueltas: Biografía de una familia . She died of lung cancer at the age of 87, leaving behind her son Arturo Bodenstedt, who was her only child.

Films and roles

• 1946: "La desconocida de Arias"
• 1950: "Del odio nace el amor"
• 1950: "Vuelve Pancho Villa" or in Mexico: "Pancho Villa vuelve"
• 1950: "The Torch" or "Rebels of the Black Mountains"
• 1950: "Pancho Villa Returns"
• 1950: "Un Día de vida"
• 1951: " Muchachas de Uniforme " or " Girls in Uniform "
• 1951: "Islas Marías", as Rosa Suárez
• 1952: "El Cuarto cerrado"
• 1952: "El Rebozo de Soledad" or "Soledad's Shawl"
• 1953: "Sombrero", as Tia Magdalena
• 1954: "Salt of the Earth", as Esperanza Quintero
• 1976: “Lo Mejor de Teresa”, as Tía Licha
• 1977: "Mina, viento de libertad" or "Mina, Wind of Freedom"
• 1977: "Balún Canán" (based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Rosario Castellanos )

supporting documents

• Works by and about Rosaura Revueltas in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Rosaura Revueltas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rosaura Revueltas (Spanish-language diploma thesis)