Saving Private Perez (2011) Salvando al Soldado Pérez (original title)

Director:

Beto Gómez

Writers:

Beto Gómez
Francisco Payó González

Release Date:

2 September 2011 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Western

Plot:

A Mexican crime lord is forced by his mother to plan a suicidal rescue mission to find his lost brother in the most unexpected place on Earth... |

Plot Keywords:

Rescue | Rescue Mission | Mission | Helicopter | Against The Odds

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Miguel Rodarte	...	Julian Pérez
Adal Ramones	...	Benito García
Jaime Camil	...	Eladio
Jesús Ochoa	...	Chema Díaz
Gerardo Taracena	...	Carmelo Benavides
Joaquín Cosio	...	Rosalío Medoza
Isela Vega	...	Doña Elvira de Pérez
Rodrigo Oviedo	...	Pumita
Marius Biegai	...	Sasha Boginski
Claudia Salinas	...	Chayito
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michelle Marie Benoit	...	News Correspondent
Michael Birnberg
Alex Cervantes	...	Julian Pérez - niño
Manuel Domínguez
Roberto Espejo	...	Lucio
Veronica Falcón	...	Mujer Arabe
Juan Carlos Flores	...	Juan Pérez Nomel
Vicente Fox	...	Himself
Johnny Gerland	...	Daily (as John Gerald Randall)
Alfredo Herrera	...	Arab contact
Leonardo Kourchenko	...	Himself
Alexander Minchenko	...	Yuri
Gerardo Ott	...	Pascual
Kaveh Parmas	...	Ahmed Kubba
Gaston Peterson		(as Gastón Manuel Peterson)
Guillermo Quintanilla	...	Delfino
William Raymond	...	Willis
Miguel Enrique Rodriguez	...	Carmelo - niño
Randy Vasquez	...	Lt. Diaz

Directed by
Beto Gómez

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Francisco Payó González
Beto Gómez

Produced by
Alexis Fridman	....	producer
Fernanda Gabenara	....	associate producer
Beto Gómez	....	producer
Diloy Gülün	....	line producer: Turkey
Mariano Menendez	....	executive producer
Billy Rovzar	....	producer
Fernando Rovzar	....	producer
Alejandro Safa	....	executive producer
Anwar Safa	....	executive producer
Sandra Solares	....	line producer
Walter Von Borstel	....	producer

Original Music by
Mark Mothersbaugh

Cinematography by
Daniel Jacobs

Film Editing by
Mario Sandoval

Casting by
Manuel Teil

Production Design by
Raymundo Cabrera

Art Direction by
Alejandra Quijano

Set Decoration by
Liz Medrano

Costume Design by
Marylin Fitoussi

Makeup Department
Antonio Garfias	....	makeup artist
Roberto Ortiz	....	makeup department head
Marco Antonio Pérez	....	key hair stylist
Karina Rodríguez	....	makeup artist
Felipe Salazar	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Stephanie 'Tuty' Correa	....	unit manager
Carlos A. Morales	....	post-production supervisor
Horacio Rodríguez	....	unit manager
Erica Sánchez Su	....	executive in charge of production
Juan Uruchurtu	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mauricio Lule	....	first assistant director: second unit
Miguel Necoechea Jr.	....	second assistant director
Jorge Eduardo Ramírez	....	first assistant director
Hugo Rodríguez	....	first assistant director
Anwar Safa	....	second unit director
Rodrigo Valdés	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Fernando Acevedo	....	props
Renata Alegría	....	set dresser
Maga Bellomo	....	property master
Leopoldo Castellanos	....	on-set dresser
Javier Cortes	....	construction coordinator
Carlos Cosio	....	special props
Diego Gajardo	....	graphic design director
Carlos Lagunas	....	lead set designer
Edgar Matamoros	....	graphic designer
Lucía Oceguera	....	set dresser
Sandro Valdez	....	set designer

Sound Department
Miguel Ángel Blanco	....	foley editor
Eduardo Castillo	....	adr recordist
Eduardo Castillo	....	dialogue editor
Eduardo Castillo	....	sound effects editor
Fernando Cámara	....	sound
Eric Dounce	....	sound designer
Paulina García	....	sound department coordinator
Enrique Greiner	....	sound designer
Enrique Greiner	....	sound re-recording mixer
Miguel Ángel Molina	....	sound mixer
Ernesto Muñoz	....	boom operator
Michael Parlett	....	adr engineer
Raúl Zabala	....	on-set sound assistant

Special Effects by
Alejandro Vázquez	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Gustavo Bellon	....	digital compositor
Jose C. Garcia de Letona	....	visual effects producer
Alejandra Gonzalez-Reygadas	....	visual effects producer
Jose Julian Karam Lopez	....	digital compositor
Juan Carlos Lepe	....	cg artist
Miguel Lizarraga	....	matte paint artist
Diego Vazquez Lozano	....	visual effects artist
Edgardo Mejia	....	visual effects producer
Jorge Mendoza	....	digital compositor
Pilar Sarmiento Mere	....	digital compositor
Edgar Piña	....	cg artist
Raul Prado	....	visual effects supervisor
Diego Riestra	....	visual effects artist
Mevlana Rumi	....	digital compositor
Guillermo Leonardo Diaz Sotelo	....	compositor

Stunts
Hugo Aguilera	....	stunt double
Odin Ayala	....	stunts
Omar Ayala	....	stunts
Julian Bucio	....	stunt coordinator
Toni Bucio	....	stunt double
Victor Hugo Ramirez	....	stunts
Alonso Rosado	....	stunts
Jordi Sendra Morales	....	stunts
Rafael Valdez	....	stunts
Pablo Vinós	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Marc Bellver	....	cinematographer: second unit
Jose Gutierrez	....	assistant camera
Leonardo Julián	....	gaffer
Dariela Ludlow	....	camera c operator
Juan Pablo Ojeda	....	first assistant "a" camera: second unit
Anna Soler Cepriá	....	still photographer

Casting Department
Jorge Guerrero	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Rodolfo Cruz	....	wardrobe assistant
Zeferino Gutierrez	....	wardrobe assistant
Gerardo Medina	....	wardrobe coordinator
Guadalupe Narváez	....	wardrobe assistant
Ana Gabriela Nuñez	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Salvador Flores	....	assistant editor
Mathieu Reid	....	color timer

Music Department
John Enroth	....	arranger
John Enroth	....	musician
John Enroth	....	orchestrator
Lynn Fainchtein	....	music supervisor
Albert Fox	....	arranger
Albert Fox	....	musician
Albert Fox	....	orchestrator

Transportation Department
Sergio Galicia	....	unit driver

Other crew
David Alatorre	....	production assistant
Jose Manuel Ballesteros	....	catering coordinator
Roberto Cárdenas	....	production assistant
Fuad Abed Dalton	....	key production assistant
Manuel Del Toro	....	armorer
Rafael Del Toro	....	armorer
Brenda Fernández	....	production assistant
Rabdul Fez	....	making-of
Andrea Gamboa	....	additional assistant production coordinator
Norka Guerrero	....	animal trainer
Jobo Panteras	....	making-of director and editor
Lorenzo Roca	....	animal trainer
Karla Cadena Soto	....	production assistant
Fernando Torres	....	production assistant
Alejandra Treviño	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Lemon Films
• Terregal Films
• Via Media

Distributors

• Videocine (2011) (Mexico) (theatrical)
• Pantelion Films (2011) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)

Special Effects

• Fx Shop

Also Known As:

"Salvando al Soldado Pérez" - Mexico (original title)
"Private Pérez" - International (English title) (imdb display title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and brief strong language

Runtime:

Mexico:105 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Mexico:B

Filming Locations:

Coahuíla, Mexico

Company:

Lemon Films

Trivia:

The original song "Corazón negro" was the last one that legendary singer Chavela Vargas recorded, as she announced at the end of the recording session.

Movie Connections:

References Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Soundtrack:

SOLDADO PEREZ

Viva México and Viva "Salvando al soldado Pérez"!!!!!!!!

Just saw this movie during a special midnight screening in the "Hola México" Film Festival in L.A., and let me tell you that I love it!!!! Really funny, with great characters and an imaginative and international story, for me as a Mexican was a touching but also exciting experience to be in an American cinema watching a great Mexican movie. What a crazy and well done idea for a movie. At last a Mexican movie where we are the heroes of the movie!!!!!! I can't wait to the commercial release of this movie in the U.S., I check the Internet and it seems it will be September the 16th of 2011. Viva México and Viva "Salvando al soldado Pérez"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the soundtrack was incredible, the score and the songs, all delivering the right tone for the screenplay, the actors and everything that takes life on the screen!!!!!!!