Production
Aug 24, 1922
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Gustavo Alatriste
Production
Biography
Gustavo Alatriste Rodríguez (August 8th, 1922 – July 22, 2006) was a Mexican director, producer, exhibitor, and entrepreneur. At the age of 17, he enrolled in the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial to study Accounting, but left after only six months. He married Ariadne Welter, an actress who appeared in Ensayo de un crimen (1955), a film directed by the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, with whom Alatriste formed a strong friendship. A successful furniture businessman, Alatriste later ventured into the film industry as a producer with Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961), a story set in an old and remote estate filled with attractions and romantic entanglements involving a novice (Silvia Pinal, then Alatriste’s second wife), her uncle Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), her cousin Jorge (Paco Rabal), the maid Ramona (Margarita Lozano), and a group of beggars. The film was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where Alatriste received the prize from André Malraux, then France’s Minister of Culture and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Feature Films (7)
Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Aquel famoso Remington
Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.
Whoever is Responsible
Through still photographs from different eras, excerpts from some of his most accomplished films, interviews, and testimonies, this documentary explores the life and work of Alec Pelepiok, later known as Alex Phillips.
