Valente Quintero (film)

Valente Quintero is a 1973 Mexican historical drama film directed by Mario Hernndez and starring Antonio Aguilar who also cowrote and produced the film in the title role. Saby Kamalich, Narciso Busquets, Sara Garca, Eleazar Garca, and Cornelio Reyna also star. The supporting cast includes Enriqueta Jimnez and Alejandro Reyna, among others. Flor Silvestre appears in a special musical performance.

In the contemporary era circa 1973, two foreign tourists make a stop at the provincial town of Perales. Two small memorials surrounded by pebbles in a corner of a street attract their attention. On the meantime, two elderly veterans of the Mexican Revolution, Chelelo and Cornelio, come out from a nearby building to receive them. They explain to the tourists about the memorials and to whom are they in memory of. Chelelo then recounts the story of two revolutionary friends, Sublieutenant Valente Quintero and Major Atanasio Pizarro, who are fighting a battle in one of Perales residential streets. Valente is severely injured when he is shot in front of the late General Gumersindo Carrillos house where his widow, doa Elvira Pea, his daughter, Leonor Carrillo, and their housemaid, Carmen, reside. Leonor witnesses when Valente is shot and is decided to go out and help him, against her mothers wishes. Leonor then tells her mother that she is returning a favor that could have been made to her father, who helplessly died while bleeding in the midst of a forest. Leonor therefore runs across the street to get the towns drunkard physician, Doctor Plcido. Elvira, Carmen, and Leonor carry Valente into the house and lay him in a bed. Valente stays ill in bed for several days and his friend Atanasio later receives word about his survival. Atanasio falls in love with the elegant and sophisticated Leonor and admires the conservative and sharptongued matron Elvira. Valente and Leonor also start a romantic relationship, which leads them to marriage. Atanasio, who is now a rich and alcoholic landowner, duels Valente for the love of Leonor on the night of their honeymoon. The conflict ends with both Valente and Atanasio being killed by one another.Principal photography for Valente Quintero commenced in the village of Tayahua, Zacatecas, on February 23, 1972. Other few scenes were shot in sound stages at Estudios Amrica in Mexico City. Filming ended on Marchof the same year. La

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