''Simón Bolívar'' is a 1942 Mexican

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

written, directed and produced by Miguel Contreras Torres and starring Julián Soler, Marina Tamayo and Carlos Orellana. It is a

biopic A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and histo ...

of the revolutionary

Simón Bolívar Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bol ...

who fought to end Spanish rule over much of

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Cast

* Julián Soler -

* Marina Tamayo - Manuela Sáenz * Carlos Orellana - General José Antonio Páez * Margarita Mora - Josefina Machado * Anita Blanch - Fanny du Villars * Domingo Soler - General Jacinto Lara * Pedro Armendáriz - General Briceño Méndez *

Julio Villarreal Julio Villarreal (7 November 1885 – 4 August 1958) was a Spanish actor who later settled and worked in Mexico. He also directed two films in the early 1930s.Taibo p.155 Born as Julio Crochet i Martínez Villarreal in Madrid to a family of theat ...

- General Pablo Morillo * Carlos López Moctezuma - General José Tomás Boves * Francisco Jambrina - Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre * Miguel Inclán - Sargento Pérez * Carmen Molina - María Teresa del Toro * Tito Junco - General Francisco de Paula Santander * Alberto G. Vázquez - General

José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (; 25 February 177817 August 1850), nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's succe ...

* Víctor Manuel Mendoza - La Mar * Víctor Urruchúa - General José María Córdova * Miguel Tamayo - Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda * Eduardo González Pliego - General Carlos Soublette * Felipe Montoya - General Mariano Montilla * Ricardo Beltri - Canónigo Córtes de Madariega * Alberto Espinoza - General Jose Félix Rivas *

Manuel Dondé Manuel Dondé (1906 – 27 May 1976) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355 He frequently played villains during his long film career. Selected filmography * ''La Llorona (1933 film), La llorona'' (1933) * ''Soulless Women'' (1934) - Policía * ...

- General Manuel Piar * Manuel Fábregas - Fernando Bolívar * Francisco Laboriel - Pedro Camejo * Carlos L. Cabello - General William Miller * Arturo Soto Rangel - Marqués y Coronel del Toro * Max Meyer - Barón Alejandro de Humboldt * Feliciano Rueda - Doctor Prospero Reverand * Ricardo Carti - Bacuero * Ernesto Finance - Obispo Estevez * Luis G. Barreiro - General Barreiro * José Pidal - General Domingo Monteverde * Ramón G. Larrea - La Torre * Victorio Blanco - Renovales * Consuelo de Alba - Anita L. Blanchard * Margarita Cortés - María Antonia Bolívar * Mercedes Cortés - Juana Bolívar * Conchita Gentil Arcos - Señora del Toro

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* 1942 films 1940s historical drama films Mexican biographical drama films Mexican historical drama films Films directed by Miguel Contreras Torres 1940s Spanish-language films Films set in Colombia Films set in Peru Films set in South America Films set in the 1810s Films set in the 1820s Films set in Venezuela Cultural depictions of Simón Bolívar Mexican black-and-white films 1940s biographical drama films 1942 drama films 1940s Mexican films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub