Los astronautas
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Director Miguel Zacarias Music director Gustavo Cesar Carrion Duration Language Spanish | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Fantasy, Comedy, Sci-Fi Screenplay Miguel Zacarias Country Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 12 March 1964 (1964-03-12) (Mexico City) Writer Roberto Gomez Bolanos (story), Miguel Zacarias (screenplay) Initial release March 12, 1964 (Mexico City) Cast (Capulina), (Viruta), (Rauna - sargento X8), Erna Martha Bauman (Presidente de Venus), (Dueno del club)Similar movies Chespirito wrote the story for Los astronautas and wrote the screenplay for El camino de los espantos |
Los astronautas (English: The Astronauts) is a 1964 Mexican comic science fiction film directed by Miguel Zacarías and starring the double act Viruta y Capulina, performed by Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine.
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Plot
In the women-ruled planet of Venus, the Union Leader of the Oppressed Husbands Syndicate wants to revert the power of leadership back to the men and threatens to initiate a strike if his will is not heard. However, the female leader of Venus believes otherwise and asserts that male dominion will only cause war and disruption. Therefore, she sends Lieutenant Laúr and Sergeant Rauna on a mission to choose two male earthlings who can prove to be more useful than Venusian men, so that they can bring more of them to Venus. When Laúr and Rauna choose Viruta and Capulina, two amateur singers who work in a gymnasium, they are intercepted by their constant rivals the Martians who claim that Earth is a satellite of Mars and therefore it should not be intruded by Venusians. Capulina manages to steal a super-power locket from a Martian which allows him to scare them off. He and Viruta later marry the Venusian women Laur and Rauna and then travel to the Moon for their honeymoon.
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Production
The film was shot from 1 to 2 November 1960, in Estudios Churubusco. The film's working titles were Turistas interplanetarios and Dos viajeros del espacio.
References
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