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Wild Flower
MEXICO · 1943

Wild Flower

Emilio “Indio” Fernández
class conflict romantic love revolutionary movement family disownment social inequality
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Synopsis

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed

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