Lucila Balzaretti
Lucila Balzaretti (registered at birth as Lucila Balzaretti Openzeller, also known as Lucila Alarcón; Zurich, Switzerland, August 21, 1920 - Puntarenas, Costa Rica, February 13, 2012) was a Swiss actress and journalist. She participated in the theater group La Linterna Mágica under the direction of Ignacio Retes.
She ventured into journalism by writing a film column in the newspaper El Popular and in the magazine México al día, where José Revueltas and other writers also collaborated. In 1942, while preparing a report on the play El inspector, then directed by Seki Sano, she met Ignacio Retes, whom she married two years later. In 1946 she participated in the founding of La Linterna Mágica and made her debut as an actress in the play Mariana Pineda (1946) under the pseudonym of Lucila Alarcón. Shortly after, she acted in Los zorros (1946), Israel (1948) and Santa Juana (1948), all directed by Retes himself. Later she left her stage name to continue appearing as Lucila Balzaretti in the plays El aria de la locura (1953), Terminal (Bus stop), Una ciudad para vivir (1954), La feria distante (1955), A media luz los tres (1957) and Nacida ayer (1958), among others. She also had a brief participation in one of the revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, a Seki Sano version.
She was the mother of film director Gabriel Retes, with whom she participated in the films Chin Chin el teporocho, El bulto, Flores de Papel, Arresto domiciliario.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.126 |
Birthday | 1920-08-21 |
Place of Birth | Zürich, Switzerland |
Also Known As | Lucila Balzaretti Openzeller, Lucila Alarcón, |
2008
House Arrest
5/5
Because of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can serve sentence is his mother’s house, affected wit...
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House Arrest
1976
Chin-Chin el Teporocho
5.5/6
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but hi...
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Chin-Chin el Teporocho
1979
Broken Flag
6.4/8
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic pla...
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Broken Flag
1977
El reventón
4.3/3
Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father thr...
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El reventón
1978
Paper Flowers
3.8/6
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot a...
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Paper Flowers
1984
Wild Women
4.1/7
Women escape from prison to search for a treasure whose location has been revealed to them by a dying old woman.
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Wild Women
1996
Sucesos distantes
5.6/4
One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her...
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Sucesos distantes
1992
El Bulto
6.3/18
After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs...
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El Bulto
1973
The Hard Years
5/2
Three boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to get away from the social struggle
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The Hard Years
1978
New World
5.9/7
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous peop...
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New World
1989
Hard Years: The birth of a guerrilla fighter
5/3
The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has tu...
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Hard Years: The birth of a guerrilla fighter
1998
Coup at Daybreak
6.6/9
The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezu...
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Coup at Daybreak
1997
El asesinato
3.7/3
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El asesinato
1996
Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños
5/4
Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that reme...
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Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños
1995
Bienvenido-Welcome
6.5/9
During a business trip a married man has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of Aids"
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Bienvenido-Welcome
1977
Cuartelazo
5.2/6
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill Pres...
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Cuartelazo
1973
Tribulaciones en el seno de una familia burguesa
5/2
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