Ánimas Trujano (film)
Ánimas Trujano is a 1962 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez, based on a novel by Rogelio Barriga Rivas. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre, and Antonio Aguilar.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best [Foreign Language Film].
Plot
The film's setting is a town in Oaxaca during the festival of its patron saint, for which the church appoints a layman as mayordomo or steward, an honor that in effect is gained by being able to organize and cover the high costs of most of the saint's local festivities. The post is however very coveted by the locals as it is socially prestigious.Ánimas Trujano is a drunken, irresponsible peasant who abuses his children and does nothing while his long-suffering wife supports the family. Obsessed with earning the respect which is denied to him by his peers as a result of his behavior, Trujano aims to be mayordomo in the annual festival and begins to do everything he can to get the needed money. After his eldest daughter is impregnated out of wedlock by the son of the local land baron, Trujano sells the baby to the land baron in exchange for a small fortune that makes him eligible to be appointed mayordomo.
Meanwhile, Trujano's wife encounters trouble when it is revealed that her husband has been seeing a local woman of dubious morals.
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune as Ánimas Trujano
- Columba Domínguez as Juana
- Flor Silvestre as Catalina
- Pepe Romay as Pedrito
- Titina Romay as Dorotea
- Amado Zumaya as Compadre
- José Chávez as Brujo
- Luis Aragón as Tendero
- Juan Carlos Pulido as Belarmino
- Magda Monzón
- Jaime J. Pons as Carrizo
- David Reynoso as Criton
- Eduardo Fajardo as El Español
- Antonio Aguilar as Tadeo