Gunther Gerszo

Art

Gunther Gerszo

Gunther Gerzso Wendland (June 17, 1915 – April 21, 2000) was a Mexican visual artist of Hungarian and German descent who distinguished himself as a painter, set designer, writer, and theater and film director. He was also a prominent member of the artistic movement known as La Ruptura.

Known For

The Proud and the BeautifulThe Proud and the Beautiful · 1953
The Proud and the Beautiful
6.71953
MovieDrama
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
Under the VolcanoUnder the Volcano · 1984
Under the Volcano
6.61984
MovieDrama
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
El PapeleritoEl Papelerito · 1951
El Papelerito
5.61951
MovieDramaComedy
Three children forge a close friendship with the help of a gentle elderly woman, Doña Dominga. They survive poverty and social exclusion; however, fate has a cruel twist in store for little Toño.
A Woman Without LoveA Woman Without Love · 1952
A Woman Without Love
5.51952
MovieDramaRomance
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
SusanaSusana · 1951
Susana
6.81951
MovieDrama
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
The Magnificent BeastThe Magnificent Beast · 1953
The Magnificent Beast
5.71953
MovieActionDrama
Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
El bombero atómicoEl bombero atómico · 1952
El bombero atómico
8.41952
MovieComedy
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
El analfabetoEl analfabeto · 1961
El analfabeto
7.71961
MovieComedy
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

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