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

Whoever is Responsible

Aquel famoso Remington

The Castaway on the Street of Providence

Historia de una mujer escandalosa

All Movies (5)

• Alex Phillips: The magic between light and shadow1998 · as self
• Historia de una mujer escandalosa1984 · as Don Carlos Deblanc
• Aquel famoso Remington1982 · as Don Rodolfo
• The Castaway on the Street of Providence1971 · as Self
• Whoever is Responsible1971 · as Narrador