TELEVISION IN MEXICO

       

Little concrete information is available regarding Luis Politti’s brief stint with Mexican television. Shortly after arriving in Mexico, Politti makes contact with the executives at the state-owned Channel 13, directed in 1977 by Enrique Gonzáles Pedrero, thanks to help from several Mexican personalities including Margo Glantz and Julieta Campos. Soon after, Politti signs a contract with the artistic director of the station, Luis Dellano Parker, to do four programs with them. However, ANDA, the actors’ union in Mexico, imposes a series of bureaucratic formalities on the actor that he cannot afford. Dellano, in a laudatory gesture, gives Politti an advance for the four programs so that he can initiate the red tape process, but ANDA inexplicably delays it, bringing Politti to the verge of desperation in those first months. The programs are finally canceled and never produced. In October, he films two episodes of the soap opera “Mundo de juguete”, the Mexican version of the Argentine program “Papá corazón” by Abel Santa Cruz, with Televisa’s Channel 8. In December he begins taping “Mundos opuestos”, a soap opera directed by Carlos David Ortigoza and starring Ernesto Alonso, Jorge Luke and Lucía Méndez, with the same network. The job does not last very long. At the beginning of January, he is advised that his contract, which expires two weeks later, will not be renewed. Politti will later do a commercial and his résumé also shows participation in a television version of Jean Cocteau’s “Los padres terribles” but no further information regarding the show has been uncovered.

                                                                                                                                                                   Gabriel Lerman    

 

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