Three Peasants on a Donkey

Three Peasants on a Donkey
Directed byJosé Benavides
Written byAlberto Novión (play)
José Benavides
Carlos Orellana
Produced byVicente Saisó Piquer
StarringCarlos Orellana
Sara García
Joaquín Pardavé
CinematographyVíctor Herrera
Edited byMario del Rio
Music byRafael de Paz
Production
company
Vicente Saisó Piquer Company
Distributed byCinexport Distributing
Release date
  • 26 October 1939 (1939-10-26)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Three Peasants on a Donkey (Spanish: En un burro tres baturros) is a 1939 Mexican comedy film directed by José Benavides and is based on the play written by Alberto Novión.[1] It stars Carlos Orellana and Sara García and is Pedro Infante's first film, appearing as an extra.[2] Infante was also asked to overdub the singing for the jota, in place of Carlos López Moctezuma (who plays Alfredo).[3][4][5] The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlos Toussaint.

Plot

The film begins in Camarillas, the province of Teruel in the Aragon region of Spain. Three young men baturros (Aragonese peasants), Santiago, Isidro and El Perico, embark on a journey to Mexico to find better opportunities for themselves.[6] Santiago and Isidro are initially unable to convince El Perico to join them on their trip as his wife is pregnant and he is in poor health. El Perico's wife dies diving birth to their daughter, La Pilar which causes him to decide at the last minute to go with them to Mexico. After they arrive in Mexico, El Perico becomes ill, and just before dying he makes Santiago promise to be a father to La Pilar. Santiago and Isidro send for the girlfriends, Manuela and Antonia and marrying them by proxy, who bring La Pilar with them to Mexico.[7]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Novión, Alberto (1923). En un burro, tres baturros, comedia en tres actos. La Escena.
  2. ^ Curcio-Nagy, Linda A; Beezley, William H (2011). Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence, An Introduction. Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 236. ISBN 9781442212565. It includes his first cinematic incursion as an extra in En un burro tres baturros (1939) and his role as a Spaniard—dubbed by a Spanish actor—in La razon de la culpa (1942).
  3. ^ C., Peribanez (23 August 2020). "Una jota a la Virgen del Pilar con reminiscencias aztecas". Heraldo de Aragón. Aragón, Spain. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  4. ^ Millán, Francisco Javier (13 November 2017). "Cuando baturros turolenses se codeaban con los mariachis en el cine mexicano (When Teruel baturros rubbed shoulders with mariachis in Mexican cinema)". Diario de Teruel. Teruel, Aragon, Spain. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Comunicación e ideología, Issue 1, Issues 3-4". Comunicación e ideología - 1974. Mexico: Unknown. 1974. p. 45. Retrieved 11 November 2020. De ahí fue invitado para que cantara en s películas En un burro tres baturros
  6. ^ Knapp Jones, Willis (2011). Behind Spanish American Footlights. Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780292737242.
  7. ^ "En un burro tres baturros". mexicoescultura.com. México es Cultura. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
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