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El profe

1971 · 117 min

A warm, gently comic tale of a kind teacher standing up to small-town bullies, with plenty of heart and a few laughs.

Overview
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • education
  • corruption
  • class
  • found family
  • justice
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, family
Directed by
Miguel M. Delgado
Starring
Cantinflas, Marga López, Víctor Alcocer, Raúl Martínez, Eduardo MacGregor, Luciano Hernández de la Vega, René Dupeyrón, Gerardo del Castillo
Music
Sergio Guerrero
Cinematography
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Runtime
117 min
Country
Mexico
Languages
Spanish

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