one of the last tapes of Guamuchil statuePedro Infante joins a long list in the history of Mexican cinema, marking a pattern films that were censored overseasBecause of a strong view.
Tizoc’s Censorship
The film, which premiered in 1956, reached Spanish screens the following year, but it did not count that it had serious problems before its premiere, because Beliefs of the Iberian peoples And it was also on the verge of not being released.
is about”tijok”, a film in which she co-starred with the Mexican film diva, maria felix what else matters The love story between El Indio Tizoc, originally from the mountains of Oaxaca and MariaAn arrogant urban woman who incurs the disapproval of Creole society and the indigenous people themselves.
In Spain, film written and directed by Manuel R. Ojeda and Carlos Orellana Ismail Rodriguezreceived the name of “Tizok: Indian loveAnd its plot had to undergo a slight change.
controversial scene
The scene that created controversy was the finale, where Maria dies from an arrow Shot by the Indian Kosijop, who is Nikuil’s father, shortly afterwards, Tizok decides to kill himself by impaling himself with the same arrow.
it, it was seen as suicide by the Spanish Catholic Church, an act which is severely condemned and criticized as an act of little faith. To save the tapes from being canned, a Spanish publisher was hired. He repeated a scene to show that Kosjop was also killing Tizok.,
Note that the tape Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Also, in the same year Pedro Infante won the award for Best Actor. berlin film festivalWhich he could not lift because he had already died.
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