9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1991
LA MUJER DE BENJAMIN
by Carlos Carrera
Country: Angola
Year: 1991
Duration: 90'
Seventeenyear old Natividad is bored with her life at home and in her village. She spends her time between the tense relationship with her mother and a flirt with Leandro, and she dreams of traveling around the world. Benjamin, fiftyish and fat, is considered to be the village fool and lives under the heal of his sister Micaela. He is in love with Natividad and, incited by his friends, decides to kidnap her Benjamin keeps Natividad in his home hoping to seduce her. The girl adapts to the situation and plays cannily with the power she has over the devoted Benjamin and Micaela's secrets. As time goes on, Natividad dominates the life of the home and the store owned by the siblings. Leandro's sudden interference unleashes a violent episode that changes the image of Benjamin in the eyes of the villagers.
Biography
film director
Carlos Carrera
Born in 1962, Carlos Carrera studied film at the Mexican Film Institute. His professional experience has lead him through drawing and illustrating as well as theatrical work. He has worked on Japanese-Mexican animation coproductions and directed a few short films among which Malayerba nunca muerde (1988), which garnered many awards in several festivals. La mujer de Beniamin is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Malayerba nunca muerde (cm, 1988), La mujer de Benjamin (1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Carlos Carrera.
Screenplay: Carlos Carrera, lgnacio Ortiz.
Director of photography: Xavier Pérez Grobet.
Art director: Gloria Carrasco.
Editor: Sigfrido Barjau, Oscar Figueroa.
Music: José Amozurrutia, Alejandro Giacoman.
Sound: Fernando Camara.
Cast: Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Malena Doria, Arcelia Ramirez, Eduardo Palomo, Ana Berta Espin, Juan Carlos Colombo, Farnesio de Bernal, Rubén Marquez, Enrique Gardiel, Luis lgnacio Erazo.
Director of Production: Gustavo Montiel Pages.
Production company: Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografia A.C., Calz. de Tlalpan 1670, Col. Country Club, 04220 D.F. Messico, tel. 5255449717/5448007, fax 5255442652.
Foreign sales agent: lnstituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, Atletas 2, Col. Country Club, 04220 D.F. Messico, fax 5256891989.
Screenplay: Carlos Carrera, lgnacio Ortiz.
Director of photography: Xavier Pérez Grobet.
Art director: Gloria Carrasco.
Editor: Sigfrido Barjau, Oscar Figueroa.
Music: José Amozurrutia, Alejandro Giacoman.
Sound: Fernando Camara.
Cast: Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Malena Doria, Arcelia Ramirez, Eduardo Palomo, Ana Berta Espin, Juan Carlos Colombo, Farnesio de Bernal, Rubén Marquez, Enrique Gardiel, Luis lgnacio Erazo.
Director of Production: Gustavo Montiel Pages.
Production company: Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografia A.C., Calz. de Tlalpan 1670, Col. Country Club, 04220 D.F. Messico, tel. 5255449717/5448007, fax 5255442652.
Foreign sales agent: lnstituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, Atletas 2, Col. Country Club, 04220 D.F. Messico, fax 5256891989.
TFF
prizes
