translated from Spanish: Malintzin, the link between two worlds

on 27 February 1519 on the shores of what is now Cozumel, Hernán Cortes arrived in Mexico. Then Malintzin, Doña Marina or La Malinche, as it is known was only 19 years old.
This year marks half a century of the first meeting between this young woman, daughter of a tlatoani who was degraded to slave, and exchanged as a tribute along with 15 women over men in crew cuts.

3⃣ #TVUNAM co-productions will be exhibited at the International Film Festival in Guadalajara @FICGoficial #FICG34. details at @Gaceta_UNAM. ?? https://t.co/7Y3T5SRM9q pic.twitter.com/mlNYzQlSum ??? – TVUNAM (@tvunam) March 8, 2019 in the documentary, Malintzin, the history of an enigma, the director Fernando González Sitges, participate also prominent historians such as Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Berenice Alcántara, Fernando Navarrete, Luis Barjau, Camila Townsend, Izaskun Alvarez Cuartero and the writer and academic, Margo Glantz.
“We decided to tell the story of courts, which, in Mexico, something banned, is to have those shades and not fail to tell the story of Doña Marina, Malintzin, because how was apparent in the research that we did have had narrated their history, from the history officer riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods”, said in an interview for Animal politician Ernesto Velasquez Briseño.
Tape on La Malinche is the final installment of the trilogy of the conquest, a co-production of TV UNAM with the system public of broadcasting of the Mexican State (SPR), Fundación Miguel Alemán, Fundación UNAM, clear video and AMX.
The indigenous woman who joined two worlds according to the documentary, the official story told and written after the conquest does not do justice to the history of Malintzin, daughter of a tlatoani, degraded as a slave who, thanks to his intelligence and ability to learn other languages, became the political mediator between Spaniards and indigenous.
Margo Glantz, one of the specialists who appears in the documentary mentions that “throughout history, La Malinche, is a critical piece”, but in the eyes of the Spaniards, Malintzin betrayed his country.

See you at the screening of “Malintzin, the history of an enigma” @FICGoficial #FICG34 ?❤️ pic.twitter.com/7kHxxAa3nE – Priscila Lepe (@lepepris) March 8, 2019 in the documentary, the historian Luis Barjau, mentioned that Malintzin is the prototype of the Mexican woman that comes later, it faces to all, and in the face of adversity that had him live – with his intelligence and ability, it becomes one of the most powerful women not only in the hemisphere, but also of his time.
“Malintzin not only interpret, translate and intervenes in the negotiations as an essential part of Cortés, a curious fact, Chicana women’s groups have taken to La Malinche as a symbol of their struggle, in Mexico, we have not yet done so”.
Malintzin, an emblem of feminism in Mexico one of the fundamental points that touch the documentary is visible to Malintzin as the archetype of Mexican women that fight, so same forms and get ahead. The slave who learned other languages and languages that gave him the power of the word, as the ancient civilizations is shown in their codes.
“She is an emblem of the future”, say specialists in the documentary.
Margarita Flores, Director of production at Malintzin, the history of an enigma considered that La Malinche, “she is a woman who can represent us all, I think that any of the women in this country can feel represented by this woman”, said interview with Political animal.
Another voices that pointed out the importance of representing this character within the documentary was the actress Priscilla Lepe, who said that having represented Malintzin was important, to emphasize strength, courage, and ability which had to adapt to a universe of men and conquests.
“I think that it is a woman to be taken as a standard now that women live a very strong reality, like the femicides and the fact that women begin to regain that strength to the speech, the power to communicate and reach places where you deserve to be “, worth taking”, said Lepe.
The content of the documentary Malintzin, the history of an enigma was care to detail and historical accuracy so careful that it had as it assists the doctor Berenice Alcántara who reviewed details such as the clothing of the characters, how should speak and the type of nahuatl speaking La Malinche.
“Malintzin, by his noble origin, knew the Protocol of the high classes of the pre-Hispanic world and the world of mexica, in such a way that the nahuatl it hear in the documentary is an ancient nahuatl,” said Ernesto Velásquez.
For the filming of this work, they were supported from the Xcaret theme park to have locations in Quintana Roo, in addition they recorded in the Anthropology Museum, the Museum of San Ildefonso, in the desert of the Lions, and at the University of Salamanca.
Malintzin, the history of an enigma was released during the 34th Edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival even though it is also available in clear Video platform, throughout the year; in TV UNAM on channel 14.

You have to take unknown paths, to make amazing discoveries. #Malintzin clear video. https://t.co/UVgm9dGSQ9 pic.twitter.com/T59LIzHap3 – clear video (@ClaroVideo) March 11, 2019, will present it in the United States in the Latin American Festival of Portland; in Spain, in Chile and soon, in the national film archive of the city of Mexico. “The interest in the subject is such that, the day in which clearing Video put a preview of just two minutes, in a single day 120 thousand people saw him” during the third day of the Guadalajara Film Festival, Malintzin was screened outdoors at the monument Arc de Zapopan in the Guadalajara city with an attendance of 150 people, this scenario producers pointed out that “if we that someday the word malinchismos is not synonymous with treason but synonymous with overcoming and a remarkable woman, at least in five people one hundred were in outdoor function, this fulfilled the task”.
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