Film: La Perla [] Teatro Santa Ana en la Biblioteca

a perla is a Mexican film filmed in 1945 and directed by Emilio “Indio” Fernández; It is the first Spanish-language film to be awarded a Golden Globe.

In 2002, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

n a fishing village in La Paz, Mexico, a fisherman, Kino (Pedro Armendáriz) and his wife (María Elena Marqués) suffer because the village doctor (Charles Rooner) is racist and refuses to treat their son Juanito, a victim of the sting of a scorpion. Kino then finds a valuable pearl in the sea that is coveted by the doctor and his brother (Fernando Wagner).

Juana, his wife, is convinced that possession of that pearl will only bring them difficulties and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea, although he does not listen to her and only thinks of what he can have with what they get from it. your sale.

Go to the town dealers. They want to pay you much less than its real value, making you believe that such a large pearl is of no interest to anyone. He does not agree to sell it at the price offered and decides to go to the city to sell it.

Meanwhile, he is assaulted by a stranger, whom he kills, after which his brother helps them flee and the couple together with their son leave at night for the city where they are persecuted, thus fulfilling Juana’s fears.

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