Known For
Production
Born
Aug 25, 1922
Died
Jul 22, 2006
Place of Birth
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Credits
20 titles
Gustavo Alatriste
Biography
Gustavo Alatriste Rodríguez (August 8th, 1922 – July 22, 2006) was a Mexican director, producer, exhibitor, and entrepreneur. At the age of 17, he enrolled in the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial to study Accounting, but left after only six months. He married Ariadne Welter, an actress who appeared in Ensayo de un crimen (1955), a film directed by the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, with whom Alatriste formed a strong friendship. A successful furniture businessman, Alatriste later ventured into the film industry as a producer with Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961), a story set in an old and remote estate filled with attractions and romantic entanglements involving a novice (Silvia Pinal, then Alatriste’s second wife), her uncle Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), her cousin Jorge (Paco Rabal), the maid Ramona (Margarita Lozano), and a group of beggars. The film was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where Alatriste received the prize from André Malraux, then France’s Minister of Culture and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Known For
Filmography
Alex Phillips: The magic between light and shadow
self
Historia de una mujer escandalosa
Don Carlos Deblanc
Aquel famoso Remington
Don Rodolfo
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Director
Toña, Born a Virgin
Producer
La grilla
Producer
En la cuerda del hambre
Director
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Director
Las calles no se siembran
Director
Entre violetas
Director
Los privilegiados
Director
Living on Credit
Director
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Self
Whoever is Responsible
Narrador
La belleza
Producer
La mujer de a seis litros
Producer
Simon of the Desert
Producer
The Exterminating Angel
Producer
Viridiana
Producer
Magueyes
Producer