René Marqués

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

El secreto poster
NR

Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.

El secreto

1958

No artwork available
NR

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.

Chela

1965

No artwork available
NR

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

Modesta poster
5.7

The 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

Intolerance poster
NR

A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.

Intolerance

1959

No artwork available
NR

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

El secreto poster
NR

Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.

El secreto

1958

No artwork available
NR

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.

Chela

1965

No artwork available
NR

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

Modesta poster
5.7

The 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

Intolerance poster
NR

A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.

Intolerance

1959

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

Portrays the causes of emigration to the United States in a Puerto Rican family.

The Oxcart

1970

No artwork available
5.4

Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.

A Voice on the Mountain

1952

No artwork available
5.2

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

Brainless John

1959

Desde las nubes poster
NR

The 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

No artwork available
NR

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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