Macario / Clasa Films Mundiales S.A. presenta ; adaptación cinematográfica, Emilio Carballido, Roberto Gavaldón ; una producción de Armando Orive Alba ; director, Roberto Gavaldón.
Publisher:
Distribudor en USA Imperial Films & MusicInc.,
Copyright Date:
2016?
Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, José Gálvez, José Luis Jiménez, Eduardo Fajardo, Consuelo Frank, José Dupeyron, Celia Tejeda, Pepe y sus Marionetas. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. Adapted from a short story by B. Traven.
Summary:
A surrealistic, allegorical portrayal of poverty, hunger, and death in a 16th-century Mexican village. On the Day of the Dead a starving woodcutter shares his food with Death, who rewards him with a healing potion that makes him wealthy but also brings the attention of the government and the church.
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