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La Madre Mara
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Wikipedia article
'La Madre Mara' is a 1974 Argentine drama film directed by Lucas Demare.
Plot
La Madre Mara is based on the life of Mara Salom Loredo, a renowned Argentina healer (1854-1928). The film begins with an old Madre Maria on trial for quackery and deceit. On a series of flashbacks, her life is told, starting with a visit Mara paid to another famous Argentina faith healer, Pancho Sierra.
Pancho Sierra instructs Madre Mara to continue his work by helping the poor and praying with the sick. After her husband's death, Madre Mara establishes a mission or co-op in La Rioja Street in Buenos Aires. She teaches women how to sew, delivers food to the hungry, pays the debts of the poor. She prays with the sick and teaches a simple gospel of faith in God.
After the medical establishment begins to use the police and the judicial system to stop her work, Mara is exiled in Turdera, near Buenos Aires, where she starts her work among the poor and the sick one more time. She starts an orphanage and defends the workers from police brutality.
Maria's defense prevails in the trial, and a cheering crowd receives her in her home, but she faints and shortly after dies. The final scene shows a solemn funeral procession taking Mara's casket to the cemetery.
Cast
* Tita Merello as Madre Mara
* Jos Slavin
* Hugo Arana
* Patricia Castell
* Mara Jos Demare
* Alejandra Da Passano
* Adrian Ghio
* Tina Serrano
* Fernando Labat
* Bernardo Perrone
* Adriana Parets
* Cristina Murta
* Carlos Muoz
* Marta Gam
* Diana Ingro
* Horacio Nicolai
* Hctor Gance
* Rey Charol
* Sara Bonet
* Marcelo Jos
* Ins Murray
* Rogelio Romano
See also
* Faith healing
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