The Mural of Siqueiros

The Mural of Siqueiros

110 mins | Drama | Aug. 19, 2011

David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.

The Mural of Siqueiros

110 mins | Drama | Aug. 19, 2011

The Mural of Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Alebrije Producciones
Original title El mural
Directors Javier Olivera, Héctor Olivera
Writers Héctor Olivera

Cast

Carla Peterson

as Blanca Luz Brum

Luis Machín

as Natalio Félix Botana

Bruno Bichir

as David Alfaro Siqueiros

Ana Celentano

as Salvadora Medina Onrubia

Sergio Boris

as Pablo Neruda

Camilo Cuello Vitale

as Carlos Botana

Javier Drolas

as Juan Carlos Castagnino

Mónica Galán

as Victoria Ocampo

Rodrigo Noya

as Helvio Botana

Juan Palomino

as Saravia

Marcos Woinsky

as Marek

Stella Galazzi

as Fräulein Pupy

Regina Lamm

as Bebé Sansinena

Francisco Cocuzza

as Viejo facho

Matías Sandor

as Jaime Botana

Rocío Sandor

as Georgina Botana

Martín Salazar

as Lino Enea Spilimbergo

Nahuel Cano

as Antonio Berni