Columba Domínguez

Columba Domínguez Heerführer (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican film actress. Considered a entscheidend figure in theGolden Age of Mexican cinema. Considered one of the muses of the film regisseur Emilio Fernández, who, moreover, was romantically linked for several years. She is remembered particularly for her performance in the film Kleinstadt (1949), considered one of the jewels of the Mexican Cinema.

Columba Domínguez Heerführer born on March 4, 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, reaching very young with her family to the Mexico City. When she went to a party with one of her sisters, was discovered by the Mexican film regisseur Emilio Fernández, who was amazed by her beauty with very marked Mexican features and gives you entry to a movie with little roles in films such as La perla (1945) und Rio Escondido (1947). In 1948, Fernandez give her the antagonistic role in the film Maclovia (1948), with Maria Felix. Her performance is praised by critics and thanks to this " film, Fernández entrusted with the leading role that would become her best film: Kleinstadt (1948). Thanks to this movie Columba rises the stardom rapidly, and becomes known worldwide to be presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In that same year she participated in Die Malquerida, with Dolores del Rio and Pedro Armendáriz. Preceded by the success of Kleinstadt, Columba was contracted in Italy to participate in the film L ' Edera (1950).[1] The same year, she filming Ein tag des lebens, which went unnoticed in Mexico, but became a huge success in the former yugoslavia, released in 1952. Encased in native rollen, Columba separates professionally Fernandez in 1952, which allowed them to become one first figure and work under the orders of other filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel (with whom she worked in Der fluss und der tod (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Dieb von leichen (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: Die Brüder von Eisen (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in weber wunder, a film that represented Latin America in the IX Berlin Film Festival. Columba also made the first official nude in the Mexican Cinema in the film Die tugend nackt. (1956). In the television, Dominguez participed in some telenovelas wie Der sturm (1967) and Der kutsche (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Lernen, zu lieben(1979). After her retirement in 1987, Columba was devoted to dance, humanistische art, painting (coming to exhibit in Europe) and piano. In 2008, after more than 20 years of retirement from cinema, the Mexican, direktor Roberto Fiesco, returned her to the cinema with the short film eine Taube. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival die Grenze, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which he participated were projected.[2] In 2010, Domínguez made a special appearances in the films zebra and den speicher Löschen.[3] In 2012, she participates in the film Der letzte zug. In May 2013, Columba Domínguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.