Another Dawn
In collaboration with Quebecine and the Cineteca Nacional de México, we present this selection of ten films, including social melodramas, film noirs, and comedies, which are representative titles from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Rare gems with finely crafted direction, showcased in beautifully restored versions.
Restored version
A union leader in possession of documents that compromise a corrupt governor flees to Mexico City where he is reunited with an ex-lover. In the hands of Julio Bracho, this classic from the golden age of Mexican cinema merges film noir and political thriller with romantic and cabaret melodrama to create a portrait of life in post-revolutionary Mexico in the 1940s, all set against a gloomy urban backdrop captured by Gabriel Figueroa's lens. (Cineteca nacional de México)
Julio Bracho
Julio Bracho is a Mexican theater director, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Initially a man of theater, he led several troupes during the 1930s. He began his directing career during the golden age of the Mexican film industry, directing 50 films between 1941 and 1978. His most ambitious work, The Shadow of the Tyrant (La sombra del caudillo, 1960), based on a novel by Martín Luis Guzmán, was suppressed by Mexican censorship for thirty years. Married three times, he was notably wed to actress Rosenda Monteros from 1955 to 1957.
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