La perla

: "This article is about the Mexican movie. For other uses, see La Perla ."Infobox_Film
name = La perla/the Pearl


imdb_id = 0037981
producer = Águila Films
director = Emilio Fernández
writer = John Steinbeck (adaptation by Emilio Fernández, John Steinbeck and Jackson Wagner)
starring = Pedro Armendáriz
María Elena Marqués
Fernando Wagner
Charles Rooner
music = Antonio Díaz Conde
cinematography = Gabriel Figueroa
editing = Gloria Schoemann
distributor =
released = 1945
runtime = 85 min.
country = Mexico
language = 2 versions: Spanish and English
budget =

"La perla" ("The pearl") is a 1945 Mexican film. The story is based on the novel "The Pearl", by John Steinbeck, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie.

In 1945, Emilio Fernández, who was in love with Olivia de Havilland ("Gone with the Wind") thought she was the ideal actress to play the starring role of this movie. He planned to produce the film for Óscar Dancigers, the Franco-Russian head of Águila Films who had arrived in Mexico three years earlier escaping the horrors of war in Europe. Danciers prepared the production of the film with a script written by Fernández and Steinbeck, the author or the novel of the same name ("The Pearl") in both Spanish and English versions.

After the success of this costly film, Dancigers became one of the most important producers of the Cinema of Mexico and Fernández obtained international recognition. de Havilland never knew of the love of Fernández but he was able to get the government of Mexico City to change the name of the street he grew up on to "Dulce Olivia" ("Sweet Olivia").

Awards

Premio Ariel (1948)

Awarded
* Emilio Fernández "Ariel de Oro" ("Golden Ariel")
* Pedro Armendáriz (actor)
* Juan García (supporting actor)
* Gabriel Figueroa (photography)

Nominated
* Gilberto González (supporting actor)
* María Elena Marqués (actress)
* Gloria Schoemann (editing)
* Antonio Díaz Conde (score)
* Emilio Fernández (screenplay)
* Emilio Fernández (director)

Golden Globe 1949

* Gabriel Figueroa (photography)

Venice Film Festival 1947

* Emilio Fernández Golden Lion

Madrid Film Festival 1949

* Gabriel Figueroa (photography)

Plot

In a fishing village, Kino (Armendáriz) and his wife Juana (Marqués) are in anguish because their little son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion, the local doctor (a foreigner) refuses to treat the child and the boy is taken to a curandera. Later the doctor and his brother (Wagner), a loan shark meet Kino again, after he finds an expensive pearl and decide to steal it from him.

External links

* (es) [http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/perla.html "La Perla"] at the Cinema of Mexico site of ITESM.
* (es) [http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/act_permanentes/luces_de_la_ciudad/CineClub/laperla.htm "La perla"] at Red escolar.
*imdb title|id=0037981|title=La Perla
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=37563 New York Times Movie Review]