Tepeyac (film)

Tepeyac (Spanish: El milagro de Tepeyac, lit. 'The Miracle from Tepeyac') is a 1917 film directed by , and ^[1] rescued by and restored by National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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 she starts reading a book about the apparition of Tonantzin as the Virgin of Guadalupe.^[2] 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. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6
• 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[]

• Tepeyac at IMDb
• (in Spanish) Página para ver la película en la Filmoteca de la UNAM filmoteca.unam.mx

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