Reportaje is a 1953 Mexican film. The film brought together the most important stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and was held for charitable purposes for the A.N.D.A (Asociación Nacional de Actores) of México.

The film is divided in 6 chapters around a principal storyline. Was released in a special presentation in the 1954 Cannes Film Festival

1954 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Jean Cocteau *Jean Aurenche *André Bazin *Luis Buñuel*Henri Calef *Guy Desson *Philippe Erlanger *Michel Fourre-Cormeray *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais...

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Plot

The owner of a daily paper wants to find the most important news on New Year's Eve. Therefore he decides to send his top reporters to strategic points in Mexico City.

Chapter 1: The Hospital

One of the reporters arrives at the hospital and finds his wife about to give birth. Upon entering the hospital, he discovers a lot of curious cases.

Cast

• Roberto Cañedo
• María Elena Marqués
  María Elena Marqués
  María Elena Marqués was a Mexican actress who was a star of Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.In her best-known role, Marqués starred in the 1947 film La perla ; she played the wife of a fisherman who finds the ill-fated pearl. The film was based on John Steinbeck's book The Pearl...
  
  
• Columba Domínguez
  Columba Domínguez
  Columba Domínguez Adalid is a former Mexican actress, one of the icons of the golden era of the Cinema of Mexico.-Biography:...
  
  
• Carmen Montejo
  Carmen Montejo
  Carmen Montejo is a Mexican actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico....
  
  
• Esther Fernández
  Esther Fernández
  Esther Fernández was a Mexican film actress of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s....
  
  
• Ernesto Alonso
  Ernesto Alonso
  Ernesto Ramirez Alonso was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "Señor Telenovela" because most of his work centered around telenovelas known around the world....
  
  
• Miroslava
• Miguel Torrúco
• Julio Villarreal
• Amanda del Llano
• Ramón Gay

Chapter 2: The Police Station

The Head of a police station has to endure several funny cases with very peculiar people.

Cast

• Carlos López Moctezuma
• "Clavillazo"
• Tin Tan
• Marcelo Chávez
• Meche Barba
  Meche Barba
  Meche Barba was a Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Was considered one of the icons of the "Rumberas film"...
  
  
• Irma Torres
• Wolf Rubinskis

Chapter 3: The House of a rich man

The reporter goes to the party of one of the most rich men of the city. The man will ask to marry his fiancee. A malaise makes him discover that his life has little time.

Cast

• Pedro Infante
  Pedro Infante
  José Pedro Infante Cruz , better known as Pedro Infante, is the most famous actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and is an idol of the Latinamerican people, together with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís, who were styled the Tres Gallos Mexicanos . He was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa,...
  
  
• Carmen Sevilla
  Carmen Sevilla
  Carmen Sevilla is a popular Spanish actress, singer and TV presenter. She made her film debut in 1948 in Jalisco Canta en Sevilla. Other roles include Academy Award nominee La venganza, Buscando a Mónica and the 1956 French film Don Juan.She played Mary Magdalene in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings...
  
  
• Domingo Soler
• Carmelita González
• Armando Silvestre
  Armando Silvestre
  Armando Silvestre is a Mexican film actor. He has appeared in over 190 films since 1948.-Selected filmography:* Hiawatha * Rosanna * Santo Contra los Zombis * Geronimo...
  
  
• Manolo Fábregas

Chapter 4: The Show center

Several stars trying to stay ahead in a Show-Center. In the middle of the performances, a rich man is blackmailed by two peculiars thieves.

Cast

• Libertad Lamarque
  Libertad Lamarque
  Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...
  
  
• Pedro Vargas
  Pedro Vargas
  Pedro Vargas Mata was a Mexican singer and actor, from the golden age of Mexican cinema. He was known as the "Nightingale of the Americas".-Biography:...
  
  
• Lola Flores
  Lola Flores
  María Dolores "Lola" Flores Ruiz was a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress.- Professional career :Flores was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz . Although thought to be only part gypsy, she strongly identified with the Spanish gypsy culture...
  
  
• Andres Soler
• Fernando Soler
  Fernando Soler
  Fernando Soler was a prolific Mexican film actor and film director.He appeared in over 100 films between 1915 and his death in 1979.- External links :...
  
  
• Pedro Lopez Lagar
  Pedro López Lagar
  Pedro López Lagar was a Spanish born Argentine film actor of the 1940s and 1950s.Although born in Madrid he moved to Argentina as a young man and began acting in film in 1938...
  
  
• Joaquín Pardavé
  Joaquín Pardavé
  Joaquín Pardavé Arce was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was best known for starring and directing various comedy films during the 1940s...
  
  
• Luis Aldás

Chapter 5: The Divorce

The owner of the Daily returns to home and his beautiful wife asked divorce. The couple begins to remember details of their happy years.

Chapter 6: The Hotel

In a hotel, a pair of young stars fight because the man is a singer and does not awake. The singer is surprised when the woman (very beautiful woman) appears in his bedroom.

Details

The very-know Mexican comedian Cantinflas

Cantinflas

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes , was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin...

 refuse to act in the film without salary as all the others stars. The actor Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz was a Mexican actor of the cinema of Mexico and Hollywood.-Early life:Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and Adela Hastings . He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín...

 was announced in the magazines, but he never appears in the film.

External links

• Reportaje at the Cinema of Mexico site of ITESM.