Honrarás a tu madre
Alfredo leaves his home to get an education, continually asking for financial support from his poor family. He deceives his family by not completing school but instead marrying an affluent woman. He a…
Honrarás a tu madre
Alfredo leaves his home to get an education, continually asking for financial support from his poor family. He deceives his family by not completing school but instead marrying an affluent woman. He abandons his family, even after they have sacrificed their lives to provide him with money. In the end, he realizes his fault and asks for their forgiveness. A poor provincial family of a widowed mother and two brothers; the eldest is good and hardworking, the younger is ambitious and calculating. The youngest goes to Buenos Aires and, to pay for his studies, begs his family for money, which is provided through the sacrifices of his mother and brother; but it's all a farce, since he doesn't study and squanders the money sent to him. He meets a rich woman and marries her cutting ties with his own family to dedicate himself to a life of luxury and pleasure; worried by the lack of news, his mother makes inquiries and is able to locate the house where he lives and decides to go see him; he receives her embarrassed, making her enter the servants' quarters, trying to get her to leave as soon as possible and never return; surprisingly, his wife appears and asks him who that woman is; he denies his mother and presents her as an old domestic servant from his childhood home; his mother, deeply grieved, leaves dejected the place, walks down the street aimlessly and without knowing what to do, until she decides to leave alone, abandoning everything without telling anyone where she is going; the good son realizes that his mother has disappeared, he wants to find her but doesn't know where to look for her, until one day he receives a letter from her telling him that she is fine but that she will not reveal where she is. Using the stamp on the letter she sent him, the good son locates her and goes in search of her, finding her kneeling, cleaning the floor of the convent where she lives and works as a domestic servant. Having learned of the contempt she has suffered, he decides to go out in search of his younger brother and force him to apologize to his mother. —Humberto Lucero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Honrarás a tu madre
Drama
Film Details
Alfredo leaves his home to get an education, continually asking for financial support from his poor family. He deceives his family by not completing school but instead marrying an affluent woman. He abandons his family, even after they have sacrificed their lives to provide him with money.
In the end, he realizes his fault and asks for their forgiveness. A poor provincial family of a widowed mother and two brothers; the eldest is good and hardworking, the younger is ambitious and calculating. The youngest goes to Buenos Aires and, to pay for his studies, begs his family for money, which is provided through the sacrifices of his mother and brother; but it's all a farce, since he doesn't study and squanders the money sent to him.
He meets a rich woman and marries her cutting ties with his own family to dedicate himself to a life of luxury and pleasure; worried by the lack of news, his mother makes inquiries and is able to locate the house where he lives and decides to go see him; he receives her embarrassed, making her enter the servants' quarters, trying to get her to leave as soon as possible and never return; surprisingly, his wife appears and asks him who that woman is; he denies his mother and presents her as an old domestic servant from his childhood home; his mother, deeply grieved, leaves dejected the place, walks down the street aimlessly and without knowing what to do, until she decides to leave alone, abandoning everything without telling anyone where she is going; the good son realizes that his mother has disappeared, he wants to find her but doesn't know where to look for her, until one day he receives a letter from her telling him that she is fine but that she will not reveal where she is. Using the stamp on the letter she sent him, the good son locates her and goes in search of her, finding her kneeling, cleaning the floor of the convent where she lives and works as a domestic servant. Having learned of the contempt she has suffered, he decides to go out in search of his younger brother and force him to apologize to his mother.
—Humberto Lucero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.