Venganza de Don Mendo, La (1961)

Director:

Fernando Fernán Gómez

Writers:

Pedro Muñoz Seca (play)
Fernando Fernán Gómez (adaptation)

Release Date:

1961 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Anachronistic | Directed By Star | Farce | Medieval | Based On Play

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A very funny theater work taken to the cinema.

Cast

Fernando Fernán Gómez	...	Don Mendo Salazar - Marqués de Cabra
Paloma Valdés	...	Magdalena
Juanjo Menéndez	...	Don Pero Collado, Duque de Toro
Antonio Garisa	...	El Rey, Alfonso VII
Joaquín Roa	...	Don Nuño Manso de Jarama
Lina Canalejas	...	La Reina, Berenguela
María Luisa Ponte	...	Doña Ramírez
José Vivó	...	Marqués de la Moncada
Paula Martel	...	Azofaifa
Naima Lamcharki	...	Rezaida (as Naima Cherky)
Lola Cardona	...	Marquesa de Tarrasa (as Lolita Cardona)
Francisco Camoiras	...	Clodulfo
Antonio Queipo
Xan das Bolas	...	Alí
Julio Goróstegui
Rafael Samaniego
Pilar Gómez Ferrer
Fernando Sánchez Polack		(as Fernando S. Polack)
Margarita Torino
José Antonio Izaguirre
Agustín Zaragoza
Manuel Aguilera
Joaquín Pamplona
Enrique Navarro
Ángel Calero
Joaquín Burgos
Eugenio Dicente
Enrique Soto
Laureano Franco
Paquita Guillot
Manuel Flores

Dirigida por
Fernando Fernán Gómez

Créditos del guión
Pedro Muñoz Seca		(play)
Fernando Fernán Gómez		(adaptation)

Música original por
Rafael de Andrés

Fotografía por
José F. Aguayo

Montaje por
Rosa G. Salgado		(as Rosa Salgado)

Diseño de producción por
Rafael Richart

Diseño de vestuario por
Rafael Richart

Departamento de maquillaje
Mercedes Guillot	....	hair stylist
Félix Masó	....	assistant makeup artist
Mercedes Paradela	....	hair stylist
Adolfo Ponte	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Augusto Boué	....	unit production manager
Fernando Carballo	....	production manager
José Luis González	....	production manager
José Villafranca	....	unit production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Fernando Merino	....	assistant director

Art Department
Julián Buraya	....	property master
Enrique Herrero	....	title art drawings (as Enrique Herreros)

Departamento de sonido
Jesús Jiménez	....	sound technician (as Jesús Giménez)

Camera and Electrical Department
Víctor Benítez	....	still photographer
Francisco Gómez Conde	....	assistant camera
Julio Ortas	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Francisco Puyol	....	head dresser

Editorial Department
Javier Morán	....	assistant editor

Otros miembros del equipo
Carmen Salas	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Cooperativa ACTA (as Cooperativa A.C.T.A.)

Distributors

• C.B. Films

Other Companies

• Cornejo  costumes
• Vázquez  hair dressing
• Puyol  hair dressing
• Vázquez Hermanos  furniture and props (as Vázquez, Hnos.)
• Padial  titles
• Audiofilms  sound post-production (as Audio Films)
• Estudios Fono España  sound post-production (as Fono España)
• Estudios CEA C. Lineal  studio

También conocida como:

Venganza de Don Mendo de Pedro Muñoz Seca, La (Spain) (long title)

Duración:

87 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex)

Clasificación:

Spain:T

Company:

Cooperativa ACTA

Movie Connections:

Version of Venganza de Don Mendo, La (1979) (TV)

A very funny theater work taken to the cinema.

A movie adaption of the theater tragicomedy written by Pedro Muñoz Seca. An story of honor, traition and vengeance in the Spanish Midage. The film, shot with theatrical appearance, tells the story of Don Mendo (Fernando Fernán Gómez), who is traitioned by his lover Magdalena. She will marry Don Pero (Juanjo Menéndez) and sentences Don Mendo to death so he can´t tell the truth about their relationship. When Mendo sees the light and the traition of Magdalena, he can't talk because he gave her his word of honor of keeping secret all their affair. Then he swears to take vengeance on Magdalena. Helped by his friend Moncada, Mendo escapes putting a dead man in his place starting a new life as a minstrel. Later, in the court of King Alfonso (Antonio Garisa), all the characters of the history get together and the vengeance can take place.

The cast has great actors of the spanish theater an cinema of it's time, and the spirit of the original book is held. Some verses are omited and a few new ones are included to translate the theater to the movie.

The story is very, very funny. Continuosly shows games of words, decontextualizations, and references to the classics of the Spanish theater ("Romancero" and Golden Century) or Shakespeare (Hamlet), with a very well worked script thatr makes this one of the funniest theater works ever written and a funny film.