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Pastorela (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Pastorela' is a 2011 Mexican Christmas black comedy film directed by Emilio Portes and starring Joaqun Coso, Eduardo Espaa, Carlos Cobos and Ana Serradilla. It won the Ariel Award for Best Picture in 2012.
Premise
The judicial agent of the federal police Jess "Chucho" Jurez lives with his daughter Magdalena in the neighborhood of de San Miguel de Nenepilco, Mexico City, and annually plays the role of the devil in the parish 'pastorela' organized by father Benito. When the deputy prosecutor is assassinated, Chucho gets occupied with the case and does not realize that father Benito has died of a heart attack while having sex with one of the nuns; and that the new priest, Edmundo Posadas, has decided not to include him in the pastorela, instead giving his role to Vulmaro, Chucho's compadre. After years of playing the devil, Chucho is not going to give up his role easily, so he will have to face off in a classic fight of good versus evil to claim his part in the play.
Cast
* Joaqun Coso as Jess "Chucho" Jurez
* as priest Edmundo Posadas
* as Vilmaro "El Compadre" Villafuente
* Ana Serradilla as a nun
* Dagoberto Gama as a judicial commander
* Hctor Jimnez as a possessed man
* Jos Semafi as "El Tuerto"
* Ernesto Yez as an altar boy
* Eduardo Manzano as a Cardinal
* Ruben Cristiany as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mexico
* Osami Kowano as priest Benito
* Melissa Bahnsen as Magdalena
* as doctor Godnez
Awards and nominations
'Pastorela' received a total of 14 nominations for the Ariel Awards,[http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=309605 Arrasa la pelcula 'Pastorela' en la 54a. entrega de los Ariel] from the site of 'Revista Proceso'. Consulted on 15-11-13 (in Spanish). and won eight of these.
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