Untouched
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Roberto Gavaldón | Fiction, Drama, Romance, Adventure
1954 | 87 minutes | Mexico
A romance set in the jungle around Veracruz, where a scientist searches for barbasco roots. Lost in the interior, he meets a machete-wielding stranger and his beautiful daughter.
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A young Ricardo Montalbán, taking a break from his work at MGM, plays Federico, an engineer from the capital who is sent to the Veracruz mountains to look for barbasco roots, from which cortisone is obtained.
Pedro, an indigenous man from the region, guides him through the jungle, but they get lost. Pedro is bitten by a snake and dies, while Federico falls into a river and faints.
When he wakes up, he finds himself in with Yáscara, the daughter of Santos. Played by Mexico’s national scream queen Ariadna Welter, she falls in love with him.
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Main credits
Gavaldón, Roberto (film director)
Gavaldón, Roberto (screenwriter)
Alcoriza, Luis (screenwriter)
Calderon, Guillermo (film producer)
Calderón, Pedro (film producer)
Montalbán, Ricardo (actor)
Parra, Victor (actor)
Welter, Ariadne (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Alex Phillips; editing, Gloria Schoemann; music, Antonio Díaz Conde.
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Festivals
Ariel Award - Best Cinematography; San Sebastián International Film Festival; MOMA; Morelia International Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón
NATIONALITY: Mexico
YEAR: 1954
GENRE: Fiction, Drama, Romance, Adventure
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Black and white
GRADE LEVEL: College, Adult
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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