El padrecito

El padrecito

Infobox_Film
name = El padrecito



imdb_id = 0058438
producer = Jacques Gelman
director = Miguel M. Delgado
writer = Mario Amendola
Renée Asseo
starring = Cantinflas
Ángel Garasa
Rosa María Vázquez
music = Raúl Lavista
cinematography = Luis Cuadrado
editing =
distributor =
released = 1964
runtime = 124 min.
language = Spanish
budget =

"El padrecito" ("The little priest") is a 1964 film of the cinema of Mexico.

Plot

The young priest Father Sebastián (played by Cantinflas) is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián (played by Ángel Garasa). The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired "torero" failed to show.

Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly. When accused of communism, he quoted the 1891 socially-conscious encyclical "Rerum Novarum". He even ventured into politics, with a veiled attack on the municipal president couched into a sermon. Eventually, he brokers a deal with the local political boss for some concessions for the poor of his parish.

Response

Critics generally viewed the film as typical of the later Cantinflas films, a moralizing feature slim on originality. But some found the religious themes indicative of the spirit of Latin American Catholicism. Pope John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council only two years earlier, and Moreno seemed to be embracing the reforms it espoused as the remedy for Mexico's poverty.

Some accused Moreno of mocking the faith and the priesthood, but he assured his audience that his "message would be only positive, constructive, happy, human, Christian." The Latin American contingent of seminarians in Rome apparently shared his assessment, and wrote him a grateful letter.


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