Release Date

13 Apr, 1972

Runtime

01:22: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.

Original Title

Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá

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Actors

Olga Zubarry

Luis Medina Castro

Iván Grondona

Jorge Villalba

Ricardo Passano

Luis Manuel de la Cuesta

Agó Franzetti

Marisa Grieben

Jorge Salcedo

Luis María Mathé

Bernardo Perrone

Juan José Camero

Ricardo Morán

Crew

Ulyses Petit de Murat

Horacio Malvicino

Jorge N. Mobaied