Writing

Tomás Pérez Turrent

Born January 15, 1935 · Ciudad de México, México

Died December 12, 2006 · aged 71

No biography available.

Known For

SandinoSandino · 1990
Sandino
★ 6.31990
MovieDramaHistory
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
Canoa: A Shameful MemoryCanoa: A Shameful Memory · 1975
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
★ 7.91975
MovieHistoryCrime
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Alsino and the CondorAlsino and the Condor · 1982
Alsino and the Condor
★ 5.31982
MovieDramaWar
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
Las PoquianchisLas Poquianchis · 1976
Las Poquianchis
★ 7.01976
MovieCrimeDrama
Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.
Mina, viento de libertadMina, viento de libertad · 1977
Mina, viento de libertad
★ 6.81977
MovieDramaHistory
Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested.
UlamaUlama · 1986
Ulama
★ 8.01986
MovieDocumentary
The story of sport of Mayas
Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidraComplot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra · 1981
Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
★ 5.71981
MovieDramaCrime
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
Lecumberri, the Dark PalaceLecumberri, the Dark Palace · 1977
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
★ 5.81977
MovieDocumentary
The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its closure.

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