Gustavo Alatriste
Born: 1922-08-25 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Died: 2006-07-22
Known For: Production
Biography
Gustavo Alatriste Rodríguez (August 8th, 1922 – July 22, 2006) was a Mexican director, producer, exhibitor, and entrepreneur. At the age of 17, he enrolled in the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial to study Accounting, but left after only six months. He married Ariadne Welter, an actress who appeared in Ensayo de un crimen (1955), a film directed by the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, with whom Alatriste formed a strong friendship. A successful furniture businessman, Alatriste later ventured into the film industry as a producer with Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961), a story set in an old and remote estate filled with attractions and romantic entanglements involving a novice (Silvia Pinal, then Alatriste’s second wife), her uncle Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), her cousin Jorge (Paco Rabal), the maid Ramona (Margarita Lozano), and a group of beggars. The film was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where Alatriste received the prize from André Malraux, then France’s Minister of Culture and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Filmography
1998
1984
- Historia de una mujer escandalosa as Don Carlos Deblanc
1982
- La casa de Bernarda Alba ... (Director)
- Aquel famoso Remington as Don Rodolfo
- Toña, Nacida Virgen ... (Producer)
1980
- La grilla ... (Producer)
1979
- En la cuerda del hambre ... (Director)
1976
- Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! ... (Director)
1974
- Entre violetas ... (Director)
- Las calles no se siembran ... (Director)
1973
- Los privilegiados ... (Director)
1972
- Living on Credit ... (Director)
1971
- The Castaway on the Street of Providence as Himself
- Whoever is Responsible as Narrador
1967
- La mujer de a seis litros ... (Producer)
1965
- Simon of the Desert ... (Producer)
1962
- The Exterminating Angel ... (Producer)
- Viridiana ... (Producer)
- Magueyes ... (Producer)