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El castillo de la pureza (1973)
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April 1974 (USA)
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The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years...
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1 win
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Great movie
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Cast
(in credits order) | Claudio Brook | ... | Gabriel Lima |
| Rita Macedo | ... | Beatriz |
| Arturo Beristáin | ... | Porvenir |
| Diana Bracho | ... | Utopía |
| Gladys Bermejo | ... | Voluntad |
| David Silva | ... | Inspector |
| María Rojo | ... | Young at store |
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| María Barber | ... | neighbor |
| Mario Castillón Bracho | ... | Undercover cop (as Mario Castillón) |
| Andrea del Llano | ... | clerk II |
| María Guadalupe Delgado | (as María G. Delgado) | |
| Alejandra Jiménez | ... | clerk III |
| Roberto Jiménez | ... | Trash man |
| Osami Kawano | ... | Yutaka |
| Cecilia Leger | ... | María Luisa |
| Inés Murillo | ... | Mother of Maria Rojo |
| Emma Roldán | ... | clerk |
Directed by | |||
| Arturo Ripstein | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| José Emilio Pacheco | writer | |
| Arturo Ripstein | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Angélica Ortiz | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Alex Phillips | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Rafael Castanedo | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Lucero Isaac | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Ernesto Carrasco | |||
| Manuel Fontanals | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Manuel Fontanals | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Carlos Chávez | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Elda Loza | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Antonio Guajardo | .... | unit manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Carlos Castañón | .... | second assistant director | |
| Américo Fernández | .... | first assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Jesús González Gancy | .... | sound | |
Special Effects by | |||
| Raúl Camarena | .... | special effects | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| León Sánchez | .... | camera operator | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Eufemio Rivera | .... | assistant editor | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Azteca Films Inc. (1974) (USA) (subtitled)
- Séptimo Arte (2008) (Mexico) (DVD)
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Also Known As:
"Castle of Purity" - USA
"To kastro tis agnotitas" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Greece (reissue title)
"El castillo de la pureza" - Spain
"Le château de la pureté" - France (imdb display title)
"O Castelo da Pureza" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Twierdza cnoty" - Poland (imdb display title)
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"To kastro tis agnotitas" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Greece (reissue title)
"El castillo de la pureza" - Spain
"Le château de la pureté" - France (imdb display title)
"O Castelo da Pureza" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Twierdza cnoty" - Poland (imdb display title)
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110 min
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Though recently in the Mexican movies we see basically the same kind of things like crossed stories or extremely "realistic" ones, or both, there are some things in the old ones that the new ones are forgetting: beauty. This movie is based in a true story where a man that is afraid to contaminate his family with the evils of the world (and actually he is already "contaminated", and very), decides to lock them inside their house for years, avoiding them any kind of contact with the world, even throw the windows. Not happy just with this, he makes the kids work in the family business that is making poison to kill rats. The characters are confocal created, ambiguous and confused, such as anybody is, and themes like loneliness or sexual curiosity in the kids while they are growing up is very well managed. However, even it is a sad story, it is so well treated, that it is beautiful. This is a movie that I would certainly recommend, specially because Mexican movies has not good fame.