Tepeyac (film)

Tepeyac
Directed by	José Manuel Ramos Carlos E. Gonzáles Fernando Sáyago
Written by	José Manuel Ramos Carlos E. Gonzáles
Produced by	Enrique Rosas
Starring	Beatriz de Córdova: Virgen de Guadalupe Gabriel Montiel: Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Pilar Cotta: Lupita Flores Fray Juan de Zumárraga Fray Bernardino de Sahagún
Production company	Colonial
Release date	1917 (1917)
Running time	64 min
Country	Mexico

Tepeyac (Spanish: El milagro de Tepeyac, lit. 'The Miracle from Tepeyac') is a 1917 Mexican silent film directed by José Manuel Ramos, Carlos E. Gonzáles and Fernando Sáyago. It was rescued by Aurelio de los Reyes and restored by National Autonomous University of Mexico and was Mexico's only surviving silent film in history.

Plot

The full film Tepeyac from 1917

Lupita Flores knows her fiancé Carlos Fernández was in a boat sunk by a German submarine and she prays to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Later on, she cannot sleep and starts reading a book about the apparition of Tonantzin as the Virgin of Guadalupe. The story follows Juan Diego, who sees a vision of the maiden at Tepeyac. Eventually, Carlos is saved and Lupita and Carlos go to Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12.

Bibliography

• David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6
• Rodrãguez, Paul A. Schroeder. “Latin American Silent Cinema: Triangulation and the Politics of Criollo Aesthetics.” Latin American Research Review, vol. 43, no. 3, 2008, pp. 33–58. JSTOR [JSTOR], doi:10.1353/lar.0.0049.

External links

• Tepeyac at IMDb
• (in Spanish) Página para ver la película en la Filmoteca de la UNAM filmoteca.unam.mx