Screens Sunday, October 23, 5:30 pm
Dias de otoño
(Days Of Autumn)
Mexico / 1963 / 95 min
Director: Roberto Gavaldon
Producer: Clasa Films Mundiales
Screenwriters: Julio Alejandro, Emilio Carballido; Based on the story
Frustration by: B. Traven
Cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa
Editor: Gloria Schoemann
Art Director: Manuel Fontanals
Music: Raul Lavista
Luisa leaves her town of San José to go to the capital. She has a letter from her recently deceased aunt recommending her as a good pastry chef to widowed albino, who owns a candy shop. She tells her workmates that in two weeks she is going to marry her boyfriend Carlos, who is a chauffeur for a rich family that lives in the Lomas area of town. But Carlos will deceive her. Overcoming her disappointment, Luisa moves and decides to tell people at work that she did get married. She even has a photomontage made of her as a bride next to Carlos and pretends to be pregnant. The widowed albino sees Luisa alone in Chapultepec and suspects that something strange is going on and decides to propose to her.
Luisa deja su pueblo para ir a la capital. Lleva consigo una carta de recomendación para el viudo albino, dueño de una pastelería, quien acepta emplearla. Luisa cuenta a sus nuevas compañeras de trabajo que pronto se casará con Carlos, chofer de un hogar de millonarios, quien decepcionará a Luisa. Sin embargo, ésta inventa que la boda se ha realizado, incluyendo un fotomontaje y un supuesto embarazo. Albino sospecha que algo raro pasa con ella y le propone matrimonio.
Cast: Pina Pellicer, Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Evangelina Elizondo, Adriana Roel, Luis Lomeli, Graciela Doring, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Hortensia Santovena, Eva Calvo, Guillermo Orea, Jose Chavez Trowe
Awards: Pina Pellicer Award, Festival De Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 1964; Premio a la fotografia, Festival de Panama
Film Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Film Year :1963
Run Time: 95 min