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Juan Orol was born in Galicia, Spain at the end of the 19th century. As a child, his mother sent him away to Cuba, looking for a relative he never found. He grew up wildly and encroached in many disciplines such as baseball, boxing, race cars ,and bull fighting; this last career effort moved him to Mexico, where he got married and started a new life as a cop. After the Cristiada War, he widowed and looked for an opportunity in Mexican Cinema where he hit the jackpot on his first feature and became the main B Side exponent of the GOLDEN AGES of Mexican movie industry in the 20th Century.—Alejandro Blazquez

Orol's whole life story is full of adventures. through his life he searches for success in many fields until finally he gets in to the movie making industry, achieving extraordinary box office incomes, but always got hit by the critics and his co-workers. Married 5 times, Orol brought her beloved ones to fame and fortune as his newly created genre's divas. Forerunner in tropical gangsters, rumberas and hippie cinema, he earned the despicable title of "The Involuntary Surrealist" or "King of Soap"—Alejandro Blázquez

Mexico's half -forgotten B-movie master, "involuntary surrealist" Juan Orol, receives a pitch perfect tribute in this love letter to a self-made man of showbiz, whose career spanned nearly sixty films. In a glorious black & white flashback mingling movie-tainted memories of his Galician childhood, forced exile to Cuba and arrival in Mexico, intrepid "Juanito" pursues failed careers as baseball player, boxer, bullfighter and gangster before landing in the movies - where failure kind of works for him. This is a fast moving comedy where every frame is an infectious homage to a golden age of cinema, the wile of memory and the art of fantasy.