Enrique Rosas

Enrique Rosas was born in 1875, in the State of Puebla. He began in 1899 as an exhibitor, opened a cinema in Mexico City and screened films throughout the country, then started to shoot films himself: views of Orizaba and León, the presidential festivities in Mérida in 1906, the last years of the regime of Porfirio Díaz. He travelled to Cuba, Europe and the United States. During the revolution, he filmed the fighting in the capital and in Veracruz, then produced fiction films. He died in Mexico City on 9 August 1920.

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• Feature filmThe Grey AutomobileEl automóvil grisEnrique Rosas · 1919Cinema