
Writing
René Marqués
Born — Died
1919-10-04 — 1979-03-22
Place of birth
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Known for
Writing
Credits
14 titles
Known for
NRIllustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.
El secreto
1958
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.
Chela
1965
One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
La plena
1966
5.7The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.
Modesta
1956
NRA melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.
Intolerance
1959
An adaptation of Luis A. Maisonet’s 1959 film "Juan sin seso", Israel Lugo’s "Brainless Juan" looks at how, half a century later, celebrity influences the individual. Using the original audio from the 1959 film, "Brainless Juan" shows images of everyday life in Santurce’s streets and back alleys, using subtle irony to deliver a strong message.
Brainless Juan
2013
Behind the camera
NRIllustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.
El secreto
1958
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.
Chela
1965
One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
La plena
1966
5.7The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.
Modesta
1956
NRA melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.
Intolerance
1959
An adaptation of Luis A. Maisonet’s 1959 film "Juan sin seso", Israel Lugo’s "Brainless Juan" looks at how, half a century later, celebrity influences the individual. Using the original audio from the 1959 film, "Brainless Juan" shows images of everyday life in Santurce’s streets and back alleys, using subtle irony to deliver a strong message.
Brainless Juan
2013
The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings.
Milagro en la montaña
1961
A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.
When Fathers Forget
1957
The role that women should play in the modern-day Puerto Rican family is discussed. The discussion is dramatized by a rural husband and wife involved in a domestic dispute.
¿Qué opina la mujer?
1957
Portrays the causes of emigration to the United States in a Puerto Rican family.
The Oxcart
1970
Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.
A Voice on the Mountain
1952
A man believes all the advertising he hears.
Brainless John
1959
NRThe first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots of Puerto Rico showing its topography, educationally inserting the island within a world-wide historical context and highlighting its agricultural and social landscape.
Desde las nubes
1949
Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem and its real, scientific solution.
Pueblito de Santiago
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