Wild Flower (film)

Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.[1] It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in Silent and Golden Age's Hollywood films. It's the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.[2]

This article is about the 1943 Mexican film. For similar uses, see Wildflower (disambiguation).
Wild Flower
Directed byEmilio Fernández
Written byEmilio Fernández
Mauricio Magdaleno
Produced byAgustin J. Fink
StarringDolores del Río
Pedro Armendáriz
Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Fernando Soto LaMarina
Mimí Derba
CinematographyGabriel Figueroa
Edited byJorge Bustos
Music byFrancisco Domínguez
Distributed byFilms Mundiales
Release date
1943
Running time
94 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose Luis is forced to confront a couple of false revolutionaries who have kidnapped Esperanza and his young son.

Cast

References
  1. Segre p.97
  2. Baugh, Scott L. (2012). Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends. ABC-CLIO. p. 313. ISBN 978-031-3380-365.

Bibliography
  • Segre, Erica. Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture. Berghahn Books, 2007.


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