Tepeyac () is a 1917 Mexican silent film directed by José Manuel Ramos, Carlos E. Gonzáles and Fernando Sáyago.David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001, McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. p. 9. It was rescued by Aurelio de los Reyes and restored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is Mexico's only surviving silent film in history.
Plot
Lupita Flores knows her fiancé Carlos Fernández was in a boat sunk by a German submarine and she prays to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Later on, she cannot sleep and starts reading a book about the apparition of Tonantzin as the Virgin of Guadalupe. The story follows Juan Diego, who sees a vision of the maiden at Tepeyac. Eventually, Carlos is saved and Lupita and Carlos go to Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12.
References
Bibliography David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. Rodrãguez, Paul A. Schroeder. “Latin American Silent Cinema: Triangulation and the Politics of Criollo Aesthetics.” Latin American Research Review, vol. 43, no. 3, 2008, pp. 33–58. JSTOR [JSTOR], doi:10.1353/lar.0.0049.
External links
Página para ver la película en la Filmoteca de la UNAM filmoteca.unam.mx