Tepeyac (El milagro de Tepeyac)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Tepeyac (El milagro de Tepeyac) |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director |
José Manuel Ramos Carlos E. Gonzáles Fernando Sáyago |
| script | José Manuel Ramos Carlos E. Gonzáles |
| production | José Manuel Ramos |
| camera | Ladislao Cortés |
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Tepeyac (El milagro de Tepeyac) is a Mexican film of the directors José Manuel Ramos , Carlos E. González and Fernando Sayago from 1917. In the silent film is a religious melodrama . The film tells the story of Lupita, played by Pilar Cotta , who learns that the ship on which her fiancé went to Europe wassunkby a German submarine . Dejected, she begins a book about the Virgin of Guadalupe . Looking back, she sees how the virgin appeared to the Indian Juan Diego at the time of the colonization of Mexico. At the end of the film, happy Lupita learns that her fiancé survived.
The film is named after Mount Tepeyac north of Mexico City , the place where Juan Diego had the apparition of Mary. Most of the film was shot by laypeople. It is one of the few Mexican films of the silent era that has survived to this day. Tepeyac (El milagro de Tepeyac) was shot by the Films Colonial production company in Mexico City.
literature
- David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001" . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6
Web links
- Tepeyac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Page to the film with the possibility to watch the film on the website of the Filmoteca UNAM filmoteca.unam.mx
Individual evidence
- ↑ David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001" . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. page 9.