Águila o sol

Infobox_Film
name = Águila o sol


caption = Poster for "Águila o sol"
producer = Pedro Maus
Felipe Mier
Cinematográfica Internacional
director = Arcady Boytler
writer = Arcady Boytler (adaptation)
Guz Águila
starring = Cantinflas
music = Manuel Castro Padilla
cinematography = Víctor Herrera
editing = José Noriega
distributor =
released = 1937
runtime = 75 min.
language = Spanish
budget =
imdb_id = 0029821

"Águila o sol" ("Heads or tails") is a 1937 film of the cinema of Mexico.

This was Cantinflas's third film and the second in a row with Manuel Medel. After this film Cantinflas decided to pursue a career on his own with the support of Medel who was already an accomplished actor.

This film, written, adapted and directed by Russian-born Arcady Boytler took the 84th place among the 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico, a list created by film experts in Mexico.

Cast

* Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" as Polito Sol
* Manuel Medel as Carmelo Águila
* Margarita Mora as Teresa
* Marina Tamayo as Adriana Águila
* Luis G. Barreiro as Castro
* Manuel Arvide as Hipólito Sol
* Margarita Sodi as young Adriana
* Jesús de la Mora as young Polito
* José Girón Torres as young Carmelo
* Dora Ceprano as Dora
* Ramón Rey as "El Gallego"
* Teresa Rojas
* Emma Vogel
* Blanca Rosa Otero
* José Elías Moreno
* Rafael Baledón
* Virginia Serret
* Julio Ahuet
* Toña la Negra
* Rafael Hernández
* Rafael Díaz
* Antonio Escobar

Plot

Three children are abandoned in a convent when they are born, these are Polito Sol and the siblings Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich years later and decides to search for his son. At the end he finds Polito and the brothers Águila.

External links

* " [http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/aguila.html Águila o sol] " at the cinema of Mexico site of the ITESM
* [http://www.publico.com.mx/especiales/mosaico/?fecha=4/22/2004 Biography] of Manuel Medel