Tepeyac (film)

• Beatriz de Córdova: Virgin of Guadalupe
• Gabriel Montiel: Juan Diego
• Pilar Cotta: Lupita

Tepeyac (El milagro de Tepeyac ) is a Mexican film directors José Manuel Ramos, Carlos E. González and Fernando SAYAGO from the year 1917. In the silent film is a religious melodrama. The film tells the story of Lupita, played by Pilar Cotta, who learns that the ship on which her ​​fiance went to Europe, was sunk by a German U- boat. She is depressed and starts a book about the Virgin of Guadalupe. In a flashback she sees the Virgin at the time of colonization of Mexico is the Indian Juan Diego appeared. At the end of the film finds the happy Lupita that her fiance has survived.

The film is named after Mount Tepeyac north of Mexico City, the place where Juan Diego had the apparition. The film was shot largely by laymen. He is one of the few Mexican films of the silent film era, which has been preserved until today. Tepeyac (El milagro de Tepeyac ) was directed by the film production company in Colonial Mexico City.