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Director 1942 - 2020

Paul Leduc

Mexico City, Mexico

Paul Leduc Rosenzweig (March 11, 1942 – October 21, 2020) was a Mexican film director. One of Leduc's most acclaimed works is Frida, naturaleza viva (1983 – marketed as Frida in the U.S.), a tribute to the indomitable spirit and determination of the painter Frida Kahlo.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

5 titles
Cobrador: In God We Trust

Cobrador: In God We Trust

Paul Leduc 2006 1h 32m

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.

Latino Bar

Latino Bar

Paul Leduc 1991 1h 24m

A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.

Barroco

Barroco

Paul Leduc 1989 1h 55m

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'

Frida, naturaleza viva

Frida, naturaleza viva

Paul Leduc 1986 1h 48m

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.

Reed, México insurgente

Reed, México insurgente

Paul Leduc 1972 2h 4m

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

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