Max Kerlow

Max Kerlow

Nascimento : 1928-03-03, Mexico City, Mexico

Morte : 2016-07-06

História

Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography. His first intention was to be a painter. However, life would take him on other paths and his incursion into the world of the arts would be as an architect, a career he studied at the suggestion of a cousin just out of school, given his interest in painting, and from which he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1954. Shortly after, he dedicated himself to promoting crafts with artists such as Manuel Felguérez and Felipe Ehrenberg, one of his first assistants. With Felguérez he devised a different line of ceramics and with Ehrenberg he invented a technique for painting on amate paper, which he later taught to indigenous people in the facilities of his café-gallery La Amargura, located on the street of the same name in the San Ángel neighborhood. As a painter he only mounted one exhibition, although every day he drew and made caricatures from the news in the newspapers: "One ends up with more or less possibilities of doing what one wanted, although, as Picasso said, at this age is when one has more desire to do things; I feel that one understands them better, knows better what one wants to do, but it is already too late," he acknowledges in the documentary by Carolina Kerlow. However, it would be in the acting facet in which he would stand out the most and which would give Max Kerlow the most satisfaction. He began his career in Mexican cinema in 1963 under the direction of Juan José Gurrola in Confesión de Stavroguin. A friend of directors such as Paul Leduc, Felipe Cazals and Arturo Ripstein, it was natural for him to be invited to participate in their films, although Max Kerlow assured that he always liked acting: "I was invited to parties sometimes just to tell jokes; I have my diploma as a joke teller". He was also a magician. He was even able to combine his interests: "When Miguel Littin said "we are going to Chihuahua to film Actas de Marusia (1976), I took the opportunity to bring my catalogs and sold my crafts very well". And he was not just any actor making any movie. His film performances are proof of his histrionic quality. He participated in Las Poquianchis (1976), El apando (Felipe Cazals / 1976), Fox Trot (Arturo Ripstein / 1976); Frida, naturaleza viva (Paul Leduc / 1983), where he played the role of Leon Trotsky, Cabeza de Vaca (Nicolas Echevarria / 1991); Cómodas mensualidades (Julian Pastor / 1992); Kino (Felipe Cazals / 1993); De noche vienes Esmeralda (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo / 1997); La hija del caníbal o Lucía, Lucía (Antonio Serrano / 2003), Morirse está en hebreo (Alejandro Springall / 2007); Cinco días sin Nora (Mariana Chenillo, 2008). In 1998 he won the Ariel Award for best male co-acting for his performance in Por si no te vuelvo a ver (Juan Pablo Villaseñor, 1997), debut film of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). In the Italian film Mediterráneo (1991), directed by Gabriele Salvatores, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film, Max Kerlow had a leading role. He also participated in documentaries and commercials.

Perfil

Max Kerlow

Filmes

Nora's Will
Rabbi Jacowitz
Antes de cometer suicídio ás vésperas da Páscoa, uma mulher judaica elabora um plano para reunir a família.
El Viaje de la Nonna
Public Notary
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
Morirse está em hebraico
Rubinstein
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
Sea of Dreams
Glass blower
On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill the heart's deepest desires. A beautiful ...
Um Mundo Maravilhoso
Sacerdote
O mendigo Juan Pérez (Damián Alcázar) fica preso por acidente do lado de fora do último andar de um importante prédio. O ato é confundido com uma tentativa de suicídio e ele vira sem querer um idealista de uma revolução contra o governo.
La última noche
Don Cecilio
Espíritu deportivo
Corsario Moreno
Remembrance
The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey through a time wich the world was made by war, that of wich we have so many times heard of and by wich we live constantly under menace. Emigration, war, freedom, childhood, the quest for something, a country -Mexico- kept in memories, are some of the subjects dealt within this film. Remembrance is the story of people who have traveled the world in search of a place where to belong, people whose lives were punctuated by ruptures.
Lucía, Lucía
Old Wehner
Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
I Murder Seriously
Don Eulalio
A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez to bring in the killer. What makes the case truly unusual, though, is the manner of death; it seems the hookers all died as a result of having orgasms so powerful they were literally fatal. Teaming up with cultural anthropologist Onofre (Daniel Giménez Cacho), Martinez hits the streets looking for clues, and eventually gets some unexpected help from Father Gorkisolo (Santiago Segura), a priest with a unusually deep knowledge of sexual matters. Asesino en Serio was the first feature film from director Antonio Urrutia; noted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro served as executive producer.
Moctezuma's Revenge
Sr. Malverde
Mexican feature film
Sexo por Compaixão
Vendedor de colmado
Dolores é abandonada pelo marido de forma inusitada: ele não aguenta mais tanta bondade. Para todos de seu povoado, ela é uma mulher santa, que ajuda a todos de forma bondosa e despretensiosa. Após confessar-se o padre diz que ela não pecou e que sequer saber o que é o pecado; instigada pelas palavras do padre e pelo abandono do marido Dolores vai tentar cometer seu primeiro pecado entregando-se para um homem qualquer, mas ainda assim as coisas não vão sair como ela planejou.
Luces de la noche
Engineer Klein
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Por si no te vuelvo a ver
Gonzalo
Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Priest in hospital
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
Sex Education In Brief Lessons
Alejandra and Ana are college friends, both are virgin and hope to find the love of their life soon. Ana meets Miguel, but they agree to just be friends. Alejandra meets Esteban, a well known womanizer.
Viva San Isidro
Don Cayetano
El tesoro de Clotilde
Justo
Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her.. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling the promise.
The Queen of the Night
Serge
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Italian Superior Priest
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Cómodas mensualidades
Young married guy is overwhelmed by the expenses involved with starting a family.
Juegos nocturnos
Cabeza de Vaca
Man in armor
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Bandidos
Sacerdote
No desenrolar da Revolução Mexicana, um bando de meninos pré-adolescentes são forçados a confiar em seus próprios recursos para a sobrevivência.
Dentro de la noche
Las buenas costumbres
Félix Morin
Mexican feature film
El cielo subterraneo
Mexican feature film
Pasa en las mejores familias
Mexican feature film
Macho y hembras
Mexican feature film
As You See?
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
Frida Still Life
Leon Trotsky
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Murieron a la mitad del rio
Mr. Walker
Va de Nuez
The Humiliated
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
Maria of My Heart
Esposo de madrina
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
En defensa propia
The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.
Naufragio
Marino III
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
The Bees
Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R.
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
Pubertinaje
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
El diabólico
Dueño de la tienda
Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...
La casta divina
Arzobispo de Yucatán
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Los hermanos del viento
Amberson
El viaje
El karateca azteca
Fritz Kartoffel
Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum.
Las Poquianchis
Reportero (uncredited)
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
The Heist
Preso del suéter amarillo
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Foxtrot
Captain
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
El perro y la calentura
Mexican feature film
Celestina
Atas de Marusia
Engineer
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
La venida del rey Olmos
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Those Years
Von Thun
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
The Prophet Mimi
Don Paco
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
Fuga da Ilha do Diabo
Pelliserre
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
The Mansion of Madness
Dr. Maillard
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Antonio Swafeyta
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
The Apple of Discord
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Bodas Negras
Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla