La venida del Rey Olmos
| La venida del Rey Olmos | |
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| Directed by | Julián Pastor |
| Produced by | Conacine, S.A. de C.V |
| Written by | Eduardo Luján |
| Starring | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Maritza Olivares |
| Music by | Gustavo César Carrión |
| Cinematography | José Ortiz Ramos |
| Edited by | José W. Bustos |
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Release date
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September 11, 1975 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
La venida del Rey Olmos (The Coming of King Elms) is a 1975 Mexican film written by Eduardo Luján and directed by Julián Pastor.
After returning from the small Mexican town of Dublán, Chihuahua, a 20th-century Son of the Father creates a new Church in the outskirts of Mexico City. A tragedy occurs at the end of the film, as one of his beloved female disciples shoots and kills him.
The film takes place in the fictitious northern Mexico town of Dublán in the State of Chihuahua, located 1,148 miles (1,848 kilometers) north from Mexico City and 132 miles (213 kilometers) south from El Paso, Texas. This is where Reynaldo Olmos travels to start a new Christian life after leaving his wife Chabela and their son behind in Mexico City. Their son dies of dysentery shortly after his departure and Chabela must begin work as a prostitute in a brothel called La Sirena. They had lived in a very poor district known as San Cayetano, located in the outskirts of Mexico City, where the streets are unpaved and the making of rudimentary bricks ("ladrilleras") is the main economic activity.
It is the sexennium of the Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 1952-1958, and at 34:01 a personage named Venustiano Negrón is shown reading a newspaper, El Nacional, and the eight-column title makes a mention of Ruiz Cortines.
At 2:50 a black man says: "Because I am a black, I may not be baptized or take the communion, I must await the Millennium, the Third Age, it will be when Our Lord return to Earth, to lift the curse of our color."
At 57:29, it can be read a sign inside the temple located in the "Colonia San Cayetano," in the outskirts of Mexico City: "Todos somos iguales, hasta los negros," id est, We all are equal, even the blacks.
Reynaldo goes to dwell in Dublán to search for a new kind of life. He becomes part of a Christian sect which seems to the viewer to be a mixture of Evangelical, Mennonites, and Mormons (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
Meanwhile, Reynaldo is baptized in a Chihuahua river by Brother Donald. Shortly after, he boards a train that takes him to Mexico City where he will start a new congregation of that Church. Authorized and encouraged by Brother Donald, they have an emotional father-son goodbye as he departs.
When Reynaldo arrives to Mexico City he believes he has divine powers. He seeks and finds his godfather and friend who had resigned his job at a factory and has opened a small barber shop. Reynaldo asks him about news of his wife Chabela. The barber tells him that Chabela has become a prostitute and takes Reynaldo to the brothel.
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