Film
La monja alférez
Mexico- Director
- Emilio Gómez Muriel
- Year
- 1944
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
Top cast
María Félix
Catalina de Erauso
Ángel Garasa
Roger
José Cibrián
Juan de Aguirre
Delia Magaña
Elvira
José Pidal
Don César, canónigo
Fanny Schiller
Doña Úrsula
Paco Fuentes
Don Miguel de Erauso
Eugenia Galindo
Doña Cristina
Esther Luquín
Beatriz
Maruja Grifell
Reverenda madre
José Goula
Don Claudio
Lauro Benítez
Don Indalecio
Jesús Valero
Sacerdote
Manuel Sánchez Navarro
Don Diego Fernández de Córdova, Virrey del Peru
Enrique García Álvarez
Don Ignacio de Aguirre
Directed by
Emilio Gómez Muriel
Written by
Max Aub, Eduardo Ugarte, Marco Aurelio Galindo
