Salvador Elizondo

Salvador Elizondo

Nacimiento : 1932-12-19, Mexico City, Mexico

Muerte : 2006-03-29

Historia

Salvador Elizondo Alcalde was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style literature in Latin America, he wrote as a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and journalist. Out of necessity he also became a filmmaker and producer.

Perfil

Salvador Elizondo

Películas

Año uña
Grandpa
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Narda o el verano
Writer
Two friends on a summer getaway find and fall for a mysterious woman who will change their lives forever.
Apocalypse 1900
Writer
In Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841-1910), a French surgeon that among other texts wrote the "Précis de manual opératoire". In this book Salvador Elizondo (1932-2006) imagines the understanding of death, of writing, of eroticism and beyond. Through Elizondo's associative photography the image of the tortured also becomes the presence of the spectators who watch their own death.
Apocalypse 1900
Director
In Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841-1910), a French surgeon that among other texts wrote the "Précis de manual opératoire". In this book Salvador Elizondo (1932-2006) imagines the understanding of death, of writing, of eroticism and beyond. Through Elizondo's associative photography the image of the tortured also becomes the presence of the spectators who watch their own death.
La justicia del Coyote
Co-Producer
California, década de 1840. El rico terrateniente César de Echagüe, que actúa en secreto como el Coyote, el legendario héroe enmascarado, continúa su lucha contra las injusticias y los abusos que la población hispana sufre a manos del ejército estadounidense.
El Coyote
Co-Producer
California, 1848. Un ejército invasor ha derrotado a las pocas fuerzas opositoras y el territorio se ha convertido en parte de los Estados Unidos. Don César de Echagüe, un viejo hidalgo, ruega a su hijo César que regrese de Europa, seguro de que él sabrá cómo enfrentarse al opresor.
María la Voz
Producer
María, huérfana de madre, vive sola con su tía en un pueblo del Istmo de Tehuantepec; vende flores en la estación del ferrocarril y es envidiada por las demás vendedoras a causa de su belleza. Poseedora de la extraña cualidad de hablar a veces con una voz que no es la suya, la joven, interpretada por la actriz italiana Marisa Belli, es la pieza principal de un melodrama rural que, bajo la dirección de fotografía de Alex Phillips, no está exento de momentos trágicos y situaciones chuscas.
Retorno a la Juventud
Producer
An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love but things don't go as he planned.
The Proud and the Beautiful
Producer
The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.
La Red
Producer
Después de un atraco dos amigos se reúnen en una zona costera aislada, lejos de la policía. También está la novia de uno de ellos, una mujer joven, bella y sensual...
Fruto prohibido
Producer
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
La cobarde
Producer
Una niña, salvada de un naufragio, es adoptada por una rica familia. Pero, al crecer, Mara es codiciada por los tres hombres que la albergaron en el seno de su hogar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Siete mujeres
Producer
Mexican feature film
Rostros olvidados
Producer
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
Paraíso robado
Producer
Marcela enloquece tras la muerte de su novio Julio. Carlos, un antiguo profesor suyo, se ocupa de su curación y entre los dos surge un romance pero algo inesperado ocurrirá...
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Producer
Un grupo de mujeres trabajan en una oficina, una de ellas está enamorada de su jefe y otra de un abogado que es casado.
Mi querido capitán
Producer
Fernando Soler - Don Gastón Garza y Garza Sara García - Pelancha Rosita Quintana - Rosita Felipe de Alba - Fernando Agustín Isunza - Homero Jorge Reyes - Don Carlos Juan García (es) - Octaviano Luis Badillo - Monchito, el yucateco Eugenia Galindo - Esposa de Guadalajara Nicolás Rodríguez - Don Julio Antonio Bravo - Esposo de Guadalajara Sonia Arriola - Bertha Lehar - Maruja, asistente de Rosita Guillermina Téllez Girón - Amiga de Monchito Gloria Mange Leonor Gómez - Estefana
Duelo en las montañas
Producer
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Felipe de Jesús
Producer
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Felipe de Jesús
Writer
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Felipe de Jesús
Story
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Salón México
Producer
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.
Calabacitas Tiernas (¡Ay qué bonitas piernas!)
Producer
Accidentalmente, Tin Tan se relaciona con un pícaro empresario arruinado que lo hace pasar por sí mismo para evitar dar la cara ante sus acreedores. En su nueva personalidad, Tin Tan monta un espectáculo musical con la brasileña Rosina, la cubana Amalia, la mexicana Nelly y la niña española Gloria. Coqueto y carismático, Tin Tan provoca que las mujeres, incluyendo a la simpática sirvienta Lupe, se peleen por su amor y por el crédito principal del espectáculo que ha sido financiado -sin que nadie lo sepa- con dinero inexistente. (FILMAFFINITY)
El gallero
Producer
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Rosenda
Producer
Drama rural en el que un solterón empedernido, dejandose llevar por su buen corazón, acepta la ingrata tarea de velar por una joven abandonada de su prometido y a la que sus padres han arrojado de su casa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Rosenda
Writer
Drama rural en el que un solterón empedernido, dejandose llevar por su buen corazón, acepta la ingrata tarea de velar por una joven abandonada de su prometido y a la que sus padres han arrojado de su casa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Nocturno de amor
Producer
Venice Film Festival 1948
Cinco rostros de mujer
Producer
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
El rápido de las 9.15
Producer
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
El hipnotizador
Producer
A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.