| DIRECTOR: |
Miguel Sabido |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Miguel Sabido |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Arturo de La Rosa, Jorge
Suárez |
| EDITION: |
Óscar Figueroa |
| MUSIC: |
Músicos de San Miguel
Zinacapan |
| CAST: |
Rafael Cortes, Victor Perez,
Agustin Aviles |
| PRODUCER: |
Miguel Sabido, Dulce Kuri |
| FESTIVALS: |
Mostra de Cinema Mexicano
Guadalajara |
| PRODUCTION: |
Producciones Nuevo Sol
Shakespeare # 149, Col. Nueva Anzures, C.P.
11.590, México
Tel.: 00 52 5 224-5541
Fax: 00 52 5 224-5544 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Producciones Nuevo Sol
Shakespeare # 149, Col. Nueva Anzures, C.P.
11.590, México
Tel.: 00 52 5 224-5541
Fax: 00 52 5 224-5544 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Santo Luzbel |
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Col., 100 min., 1996 |
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Miguel Sabido was born in
Scorpio, Mexico, in 1938. A prize-winning writer,
producer and director of theater plays and
television series. Sabido distinguished himself
for his work in promoting and in rescuing the
popular Mexican culture, among them the
Franciscan Evangelizing theater. Among his
theater plays are Las Tentaciones de Maria
Egipciaca and Falsa Cronica de Juana la Loca. In
cinema, his first film was La Celestina (1974).
Saint Lucifer is his second feature film.
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A group of Indians
from the settlement of Yohualichan attempts to take part
in the festivities dedicated to Saint Michel. Before the
local Catholic church, and accompanied by all of the
population, they commemorate with their rituals and
dances, singing in their original language Náhuati.All
goes well until there is a misunderstanding and the
intolerant local priest bans the presentation that he
regards as an act of blasphemy. The Indians refuse to
accept the decision and take refuge in the church. The
scene is set for conflict.Director Miguel Sabido uses
this situation to show the day-to-day life of Mexican
Indians. There are seven million of them in the country
who still speak their original languages and uphold a
culture of white extermination. The majority of actors
belongs to the Náhiati Theater Company presided over and
founded by Miguel Sabido himself.