Matilde Landeta

Matilde Landeta

Рождение : 1913-09-20, Mexico

Смерть : 1999-01-26

История

Matilde Soto Landeta (September 20, 1910 – January 26, 1999) was a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter, the first female to serve in those roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Her films focused on the portrayal of strong, realistic female protagonists in a patriarchal world.

Профиль

Matilde Landeta

Фильмы

Nocturno a Rosario
Director
Ronda revolucionaria
Story
Documentary film.
The Road of Life
Writer
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
Streetwalker
Writer
The story of two estranged sisters, both of whom end up as prostitutes but for very different reasons.
Streetwalker
Director
The story of two estranged sisters, both of whom end up as prostitutes but for very different reasons.
La negra Angustias
Writer
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
La negra Angustias
Director
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
Lola Casanova
Writer
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Lola Casanova
Director
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
La mujer sin cabeza
Script Supervisor
Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
Мария Канделария
Script Supervisor
1909 год, Мексика. В центре сюжета Мария Канделария и Лоренцо Рафаэль, которые мечтают пожениться. Однако жестокое и полное нетерпимости общество мешает их мечте осуществиться…
Another Dawn
Script Supervisor
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Wild Flower
Script Supervisor
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Águila o sol
Script Supervisor
At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to search for his son. In the end he finds Polito and the Aguila siblings.
Matilde Landeta
A woman, an illusion. Matilde Landeta makes come true, at her seventy six years of age, what she has waited and longed for for 40 years. In this documentary we accompany her, from day one, on her adventure.