Rosa Blanca

Rosa Blanca
Directed byRoberto Gavaldón
Written by
Based onRosa Blanca
by B. Traven
Produced byFelipe Subervielle
Starring
CinematographyGabriel Figueroa
Edited byGloria Schoemann
Music byRaúl Lavista
Production
company
Clasa Films Mundiales
Release date
  • July 20, 1972 (1972-07-20) (Mexico)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Rosa Blanca (White Rose) is a 1961 Mexican film starring Ignacio López Tarso, based on a novel by B. Traven.

Plot

An illiterate Indian lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of an American oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means.