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The Coming of the King Olmos is a film of genre Drama directed by Julián Pastor with Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

The Coming of the King Olmos (1975)

The Coming of the King Olmos
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Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Adventure
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La venida del Rey Olmos (The Coming of King Elms) is a 1975 bizarre Mexican film based on a script written by Eduardo Luján, and adapted by also director Julián Pastor and Luján himself.

After returning from a small town called Dublán, in the Mexican State of Chihuahua, a strange 20th-century Son of the Father creates a new Church in the outskirts of Mexico City. At the end, he is shot to death by one of his most loving and loved female disciples.

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The settings are a fictitious Northern Mexico town, Dublán, State of Chihuahua —1,148 miles (1,848 kilometers) North from Mexico City and 132 miles (213 kilometers) South from El Paso, Texas—, where Reynaldo Olmos has travelled to start a new Christian life, after leaving behind in Mexico City his wife Chabela and their son who died shortly after because of a dysenterya, and a very poor district, San Cayetano, located in the outskirts of Mexico City, where the streets are unpaved, and the main economic activity is the making of bricks in some rudimentary brickworks ("ladrilleras").

Actors

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

(Reynaldo Olmos / King Olmos)Ana Luisa Peluffo

(Chabela / King Olmo's wife)Maritza Olivares

(Martina)Ernesto Gómez Cruz

(Barber)María Prado
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