Farm workers see_ their
lives paralleled in a ballad
about a Mexican laborer in
“E1 Corrido”, a play in so
and dance to be presente
on Visions, Monday,

February 7 at 9 p.m. on

Public TV 9. ;
“BI Corrido” is the first
play for television by Luis
Valdez, in collaboration
with the Chicano theater
group he founded, El Teatro
Campesino, of San Juan

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Bautista, California. The
play-within-a-play, directed
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presented in high Teatro
style — in fast sketches
laced with humor, irony and

pathos. ;

The story begins before
dawn on a dusty street ina
southwest town, where
Mexican farm workers are
broading
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by Beto (Daniel Valdez), a
young, good-natured farm
worker, talking to an old
man (Luis Valdez). They
speak of the corridos, songs
handed down over the
generations by the poor, and
the old man begins to play
his guitar and sing a
corrido.

Wish a crash of cymbals,
the scene is transformed to
a plain wooden theater,
where the old man’s corrido

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is acted out. His song follows
the life of Jesus Rasquachi
(Felix Alvarez) from his
illegal entry into the United

‘States, through a series of

menial jobs and a poverty-
stricken marriage, to his
death in the slums of a big-
city ghetto. —

“RL Corrido’ then
dissolves back to the truck,
where the farm workers
realize that they have been
brought toa ranch as scabs.
Inspired by the corrido, they
instead join the union
picketers. The old man
gives Beto his guitar so the
young man can write a new,

more optimistic ending to
the old corrido,

Ei Teatro Campesino was
begun in 1965 as a. farm
workers’. improvisational
theater on the picket lines of
Cesar Chavez's . grape
pickers’ strike in Delano,
California, It is now .an
independent, professional
theater company.

Aproduction of KCET-Los
Angeles, Visions is made
possible by grants from the
Ford Foundation, © the
National Endowment for the
Arts, and the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting.

Channel 9
foreign films

The works of Vittorio de
Sica and Rene Clement are
featured on Channel 9's
foreign films for the month
of February.

Beginning the month —
Thursday, February 3 at 9

.m, — is de Sica’s “Um-

rto D,” a 1952 classic. The
moving story of an old man
and his dog, ‘Umberto D”
reveals the problems of old
age. Indeed, “Umberto D”’
makes clear the statement
that de Sica’s films are a
testimony to the in-
domitability of the human
spirit in the face of over-
whelming adversity.

The following week,
Thursday, February 10 at 9

| p.m, Public TV 9 presents

Rene Clement’s
psychological thriller,
‘purple Noon” (or “Lust
foriEvil’’). Alain Delon and
Maurice Ronet star in this
story of a rich American
playboy, vacationing in
Italy, who is murdered by
his young companion. The
murderer than assumes the
Playboy's identity, wealth —
and even girlfriend. The

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script is based on a novel by
Patricia Highsmith, author
of “Strangers on a Train” —
the basis for a Hitchcock.
film. .

“Forbidden Games’’,
perhaps the greatest anti-
war film of all time, is the
Clement’s entry on
February 17 at 9 p.m. Yet
this 1952 award-winning film
(Venice Film Festival
Grand Prize, Academy
Award, New York Film
Critics Award, Independent
Grand Prize at Cannes,
Japanese Critics Prize and
British Film Academ
Prize) never deals wi
actual warfare. Instead, ©
Clement evokes the world of
childhood and its naivete
toward war through two
youngsters, who become
playmates during the
German occupation and .
imitate the adult games
around them.

These films are all from
the Janus Collection, whose
presentation on public
television was made
possible by the Exxon
Corporation.

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