Etiqueta: Real facts
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Carmen Sevilla
The most endearing and popular star in Spain. Carmen Sevilla, "the bride of Spain", is one of the great Spanish film, television and music legends of the late 20th century. At the age of twelve, the Sevillian artist performed for the first time on stage. At seventeen, she made her first debut in cinema…
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Marisol
The child prodigy of Spanish cinema. Marisol (Pepa Flores) has been one of the most iconic actresses in Spanish cinema. At the tender age of eight, she was already performing with a dance group, where she was discovered by a producer who launched her to fame and the show business machine. The show business…
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Uncle Bill
A pop culture icon's time in Mexico. The 40s. Famous writer William S. Burroughs (Bill) began his career as one of the most mythical and mad characters of the slums of New York City. He experimented with any and every drug he could get his hands on, and quickly turned into a heroin addict,…
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The Millionaires of War (Los millonarios de la guerra)
To make millions you don't need to win the war. December of 2006, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared the war on drugs, an era of blood and fire that has left hundreds of thousands dead. However, a handful of businessmen, some associated with former Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, used this crisis to…
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Rocío Dúrcal: Follow Me (Rocío Durcal: Acompañame) (Film)
A diva with a voice of her own. Rocío Dúrcal was destined to be a star. Her first television appearance made her the icon that Spanish cinema yearned. Success would soon follow, thanks to the films and songs that allowed the whole world to watch her grow from a little girl to a woman.…
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I Can’t Hear the Children Play (No oigo a los niños jugar)
The silence is deafening. After a tragic, life-altering accident, 17-year-old Alma isn’t sure she can cope with her new, cruel reality. After the loss of her parents, she suffers post-traumatic shock, which leads her to attempt to take her own life. Her attempt is unsuccessful, and she is immediately checked in to a clinic…
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Leopard in the Sun (Leopardo al sol) (TV Series)
Blood is paid with blood. Two families, the Barragán's and Monsalve's, are engaged in a bloody war. It all started when Nando Barragán murdered Adriano Monsalve, his first cousin. At the time, both families lived in close proximity in the desert and under the same business. After Adriano's death, the two families abandoned…
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Cherubs in Hell (Querubines en el infierno)
The harrowing story of Mexicans who fought for the U.S. in World War II. Cannon fodder: that is what the Mexican migrants who enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in World War II were, under the promise of citizenship and recognition from a country that had reluctantly adopted them. Los Angeles, during…
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A Mexican in Every Child (Un mexicano en cada hijo te dio)
Beautiful and beloved Mexico is what it is today thanks to figures from its history. There are illustrious figures who have something, or everything, to do with what is "Mexicanness" today, often relegated to the shadows of oblivion. Beyond the official history, a group of Mexicans throughout history have had the chance to influence, for better or worse, the life and culture of the country, but whom disdain has erased from memory. Heroes of flesh and blood, villains or stars that shined only to be suddenly dimmed. Figures such as Isabel Moctezuma: the last Aztec princess; Jesús García Corona, the hero of Nacozari; Gilberto Bosques, "the Mexican Schindler"; Tezozomoc, the terrible chief of Tacuba; Lorenzillo, the terror of the seas of Campeche; Jesús Malverde, the saint of the narcos; Hilda Krüger, the Nazi spy who was also the mistress of a Mexican president;…
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No Corpses (Sin cadáver) (TV Series)
The dead that don’t exist. No confession, no witnesses, no dead bodies, no biological remains, yet a conviction. This is the real case of Ramon Laso, a Spanish serial killer convicted in 1993 for the murders of his first wife and six-year-old son, and in 2014 for the murders of his second wife…
