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This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
Where to watch
Not streaming in any country yet.
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Audiences 78GoodWatch 72
IMDb7.8
Running time
1 h 36 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9696Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Released
2009
October 21, 2009
17 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Spanish
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishMade in
Mexico
Directing · 3
- Viviana García-Besné Director, Screenplay, Researcher, Editor, Visual Effects, Cinematography
- Teresa Urroz Assistant Director
- Edson Lechuga Script Supervisor
Production · 6
- Alistair Tremps Producer, Researcher, Translator
- Juan E. García Associate Producer
- Mike Hutson Researcher
- Xóchitl de Agrasánchez Researcher
- Lori Hutson Calderón Researcher
- Rogelio Agrasánchez Jr. Researcher
Sound · 9
- Anahit Simonian Music
- Miguel Ángel Blanco Sound Designer
- Martín Sappia Sound Designer
- Jaime Baksht Sound mixer
- Leonardo Heiblum Recording Supervision
- Michelle Couttolenc Sound mixer
Art · 1
- Susana Martín Art Department Assistant
Visual Effects · 3
- Aleix Pitarch Visual Effects
- Rafael Rivera Gamino Visual Effects
- Paula Laverde Visual Effects
Other crew · 6
- Emiliano Motta Sound Design Assistant
- Gabriela García Sound Recordist
- Joaquim Martí Post Production Supervisor
- Mayra Meneses Arana Post-Production Manager
- Enric Tremps Translator
- Alonso Martínez Uribe Post Production Assistant
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