| Cantaclaro | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Julio Bracho |
| Written by | Rómulo Gallegos (novel) Jesús Cárdenas Julio Bracho |
| Produced by | Francis Alstock |
| Starring | Esther Fernández Antonio Badú Alberto Galán |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | Gloria Schoemann |
| Music by | Manuel Esperón |
Production company | Producciones Interamericanas |
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| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Cantaclaro is a 1946 Mexicandrama film directed byJulio Bracho and starringEsther Fernández,Antonio Badú andAlberto Galán. The film is based on the 1934 novel of the same name byRómulo Gallegos. The film's sets were designed by theart directorJesús Bracho, who was the younger brother of Julio Bracho.[1]
Florentino (Antonio Badú), nicknamed "Cantaclaro", after saving his family's lands, goes to the plains to learn more songs to sing. There he falls in love with Rosángela (Esther Fernandez), a young woman surrounded by many secrets.
The film was made as part of a spate of film adaptations ofRómulo Gallegos's novels following success ofDoña Bárbara (1943).[2]
Cantaclaro began filming in June 1945, afterJulio Bracho madeThe White Monk. An American envoy from20th Century Fox, Francis Alstock, boyfriend of actressEsther Fernández, who starred in the film, featured as executive producer. It features filming locations inVeracruz.[3]
InLos Bracho: tres generaciones de cine mexicano, Jesús Ibarra states that at the time of the film's premiere, "the critics were divided their opinions and the public did not like it," stating that "despite the beautiful and fluid language, the dialogues were long and the film a bit boring,"[3] withGlobal Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age citing that "some contemporary critics have generally labeledCantaclaro, along with most or all of the Gallegos films, 'mediocre'".[4] However, Ibarra also stated that with the film "the same thing happened as withThe White Monk; Bracho made art cinema, not suitable for the Mexican public in general", going so far as to argue, when mentioning that the film won fewerAriel Awards thanEmilio Fernández's filmEnamorada that year, that Bracho's film was "much more worthy of being awarded" than Fernández's film.[3]
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