Directed by:
Julio BrachoCinematography:
Gabriel FigueroaComposer:
Antonio Díaz CondeCast:
Ninón Sevilla, Armando Silvestre, Rosenda Monteros, Andrés Soler, Antonio Bravo, Rodolfo Acosta, Humberto Rodríguez, Carlos López Moctezuma, Chel López (more)Plots(1)
This rare amalgam of social realism and stylized melodrama by the politically attuned Julio Bracho tackles the exploitation of workers who, in perpetual debt to business owners, were often forced to “pay” with their own daughters. Sevilla plays a young woman who leaves her happiness and home for Mexico City in an attempt to settle her father’s debts. The actress initiated the project at Cinematográfi ca Calderón, hired Bracho and ensured that it resisted becoming escapist fare. The result: a potent, aheadof-its-time story of women trying to take back their power, one that mirrors her own experiences. (Telluride Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Ninón Sevilla
Cuba
Armando Silvestre
USA
Best movies:
La choca (1974)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
The Scalphunters (1968)
Rosenda Monteros
Mexico
Best movies:
Les Sept Mercenaires (1960)
Nazarin (1959)
She (1965)
Andrés Soler
Mexico
Best movies:
The Brute (1953)
Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
The Great Madcap (1949)
Antonio Bravo
Spain
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Nazarin (1959)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Rodolfo Acosta
Mexico
Best movies:
The Proud Ones (1956)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Drum Beat (1954)
Humberto Rodríguez
Mexico
Best movies:
A Woman Without Love (1952)
Carlos López Moctezuma
Mexico
Best movies:
The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
¡Patakín! quiere decir ¡fábula! (1983)
800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1958)
Chel López
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Víctor Alcocer
Mexico
Best movies:
The River and Death (1955)
Under Fire (1983)
Antonieta (1982)
Julio Villarreal
Spain
Best movies:
A Woman Without Love (1952)
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
Gran Casino (1947)
Aurora Cortés
Best movies:
The River and Death (1955)
Francisco Pando
Best movies:
Macario (1960)
Estela Matute
Mexico
Andrea Palma
Mexico
Best movies:
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)