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Tepeyac (film)

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'Tepeyac' (') is a 1917 film directed by Jos Manuel Ramos, Carlos E. Gonzles and Fernando SyagoDavid E. Wilt: 'The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001', McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. p. 9. rescued by Aurelio de los Reyes and restored by National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Plot



Lupita Flores knows her fianc Carlos Fernndez 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. 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.

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Bibliography



* David E. Wilt: 'The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001'. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004.

*Rodrguez, Paul A. Schroeder. Latin American Silent Cinema: Triangulation and the Politics of Criollo Aesthetics. 'Latin American Research Review', vol. 43, no. 3, 2008, pp. 3358. JSTOR [JSTOR], doi:10.1353/lar.0.0049.


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