Enamorada (film)

Enamorada
Directed by Emilio Fernández
Produced by Benito Alazraki
Written by Benito Alazraki
Iñigo de Martino
Starring María Félix
Pedro Armendáriz
Fernando Fernández
Miguel Inclán
Music by Eduardo Hernandez Moncada
Cinematography Gabriel Figueroa
Edited by Gloria Schoemann
Distributed by Panamerican Films
Release dates
December 25, 1946
Running time
99 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish

Enamorada ("Enamoured") is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz. The film was remade in 1950 as The Torch with Armendáriz repeating his role alongside Paulette Goddard who was credited as an associate producer on the film.

Plot summary

The revolutionary Jose Juan Reyes (Pedro Armendáriz) take the town of Cholula, Puebla, and take the money of the rich men of the zone for the Mexican Revolution. Jose Juan fell in love with the Señorita Beatriz Peñafiel (María Félix), the explosive daughter of the richest man of the zone.

Notes and references

The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. The film was inspired by William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The final scene was inspired by the final scene in Josef von Sternberg's Morocco.

This was the first María Félix and Emilio Fernández film collaboration. The others were Rio Escondido, Maclovia, Reportaje and El Rapto.

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