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Subida al cielo / María Luisa Gómez Mena presenta para Producciones Cinematográficas Isla, S.A. ; argumento de Manuel Altolaguirre y Manuel Reachi ; producida por Manuel Altolaguirre ; dirigida por Luis Buñuel.
LIBRA DVD 019 671
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Vive México! cine en 35 mm
- Alter's collection
- Vive Mexico! cine en 35 mm
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Mexico--Drama.
- Families.
- Inheritance and succession--Mexico--Drama.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Bus travel--Mexico--Drama.
- Bus travel.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures, Mexican.
- Feature films.
- Road films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- English title from subtitles: Ascent to heaven
- Also known as: Mexican bus ride
- Place of Publication:
- México, D.F. : Distributed by AlterFilms : Televisa, [2004]
- Language Note:
- In Spanish, with optional subtitles in Spanish and English.
- System Details:
- DVD, multi-region.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The story of a young peasant who is forced by his brothers to leave his bride on their wedding night to see their dying mother. Knowing that most of her sons are just waiting for her to die in order to get their inheritance, the old woman asks her one good son to travel to the city to retrieve her will. This means taking the dilapidated town bus to his mother's home town; a bus filled with colorful characters, including a seductive young woman.
- Participant:
- Lilia Prado, Esteban Márquez, Carmelita González, Manuel Dondé, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Paz Villegas de Orellana.
- Credits:
- Photography, Alex Phillips ; editor, Rafael Portillo ; music, Gustavo Pittaluga.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
- Special features: biographies and anecdotes.
- OCLC:
- 57624367
- Publisher Number:
- 7502013023432
- DVD-5205 AlterFilms
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