Juan José Gurrola
Biography: Juan José Gurrola (Mexico City, November 19, 1935-ibidem, June 1, 2007) was an architect, radio, film and theater director, actor, set designer, playwright, painter, photographer and Mexican performer. He was awarded the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in the area of Fine Arts by the Mexican government in 2004.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 19, 1935
Deathday: June 01, 2007
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To Kill a Stranger
1986-02-06
To Kill a Stranger
Overview: Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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Frida Still Life
1986-03-13
Frida Still Life
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-13
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Descenso del pais de la noche
1974-08-28
Descenso del pais de la noche
Overview: A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-28
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El Topo
1970-12-18
El Topo
Overview: El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-18
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Call Me Mike
1979-03-07
Call Me Mike
Overview: After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-07
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Robarte el arte
1972-03-02
Robarte el arte
Overview: For Robarte el Arte [Stealing the Art] (1972), Juan José Gurrola together with Gelsen Gas and Arnaldo Coen supposedly stole an artwork during Documenta 5 in 1972 and represented it with an asterisk of scotch tape on a rock in the Wilhelmshöhe Park. Sequences of this performative action are montaged like in a silent movie with panels of cut-up newspaper text blocks, installation shots from the Documenta exhibition inside and outside Fridericianum, and scenes from a horror porn movie based on the story of the serial killer "Goyo" Cárdenas – his case became a sensation on Mexican media in the 1940s and inspired several copycat murderers imitating his crimes – and underscored with a dramatic soundtrack. With Robarte el Arte, the artists satirically destabilize Documenta’s institutionalized role to chart the current art developments and thus setting the foundation for a so-called canon as Eurocentric.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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