''The Lieutenant Nun'' (Spanish: ''La monja alférez'') is a 1944 Mexican

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directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel and starring

María Félix María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and ...

Ángel Garasa Ángel Garasa Bergés (12 December 1905 – 27 August 1976) was a Spanish-Mexican film actor.Pilcher p.85 Garasa was born in Madrid and emigrated to Mexico in 1937, fleeing the Spanish Civil War. Selected filmography * ''Five Minutes of Love'' ( ...

and

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. It is based on the life of Antonio de Erauso (a.k.a. Catalina de Erauso).Klossner p.221 The film's sets were designed by the

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Jorge Fernández.

Cast

* María Félix as Catalina Erauso 'La Monja Alférez' / Don Alonso *

as Roger *

as Juan de Aguirre * Delia Magaña as Elvira * José Pidal as Don César, canónigo *

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as Doña Úrsula * Paco Fuentes as Don Miguel de Erauso * Eugenia Galindo as Doña Cristina * Esther Luquín as Beatriz *

Maruja Grifell Maruja Grifell (February 6, 1907 – March 27, 1968) was a Mexican film actress.Pilcher p.160 Selected filmography * ''Another Dawn (1943 film), Another Dawn'' (1943) * ''The Lieutenant Nun'' (1944) * ''The Abandoned (1945 film), The Abandoned' ...

as Reverenda madre * José Goula as Don Claudio * Lauro Benítez as Don Indalecio * Jesús Valero as Sacerdote * Manuel Sánchez Navarro as Don Diego Fernández de Córdova, Virrey del Peru * Enrique García Álvarez as Don Ignacio de Aguirre * Consuelo Guerrero de Luna as Lucinda

References

Bibliography

* Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland & Company, 2002.

External links

* 1944 films 1940s historical adventure films Mexican historical adventure films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel Films set in the 17th century Mexican black-and-white films 1940s Mexican films Cultural depictions of Spanish people Spanish-language historical adventure films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub