Juan Orol [SEP] place of birth
Juan Orol
Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol (August 4, 1897 in Lalín, Pontevedra, Spain – May 26, 1988 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as "The King of the Mexican Film noir". He was also known as "The Involuntary Surrealist". He was a pioneer of the Mexican cinema's first talkies and one of the main promoters of the Rumberas film in the "Golden Age
del hampa"(1944), whose screenplay was set in Chicago, a bus in the background reads "Cozumel Peralvillo-Line", a typical line of trucks of Mexico City. In "Zonga...", a film that takes place in the Amazon rainforest, there is in the background a monument to Bolivar from the Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City. Juan Orol did not care about details.
Juan Orol is also regarded as the spiritual father of the called Rumberas film for having the laid the foundations that enriched the film