Aventurera
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| Directed by | Alberto Gout |
| Produced by | Guillermo Calderón Pedro Arturo Calderón |
| Written by | Alvaro Custodio Carlos Sampelayo |
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Ninón Sevilla Andrea Palma Tito Junco Ruben Rojo |
| Music by | Antonio Díaz Conde |
| Cinematography | Alex Phillips |
| Edited by | Alfredo Rosas Priego |
| Distributed by | Cinematográfica Calderón |
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101 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Aventurera ('Adventuress') is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout and starring Ninón Sevilla and Andrea Palma. It's considered a masterpiece of the Rumberas film.
The quiet life of the young Elena (Ninón Sevilla), changes dramatically when her mother runs off with her lover, causing the suicide of her father. Alone and without resources, she emigrated to Ciudad Juárez where unsuccessfully looking for work. On the verge of starvation, Elena agrees to work with Lucio (Tito Junco), suspecting that his offer is a trap for prostitution. She ends up dancing in the cabaret of Rosaura (Andrea Palma), a woman who leads a double life: six months a year she oversees her brothel in Juarez, and the other six months she is a respectable society lady of Guadalajara. Rosaura abused and deeply humiliated Elena, who ends up running away from her with the help of Lucio, only to have to flee the city when Lucio gets involved in an assault and ends up in prison. Elena decides to start a new life working as a showgirl in Guadalajara. There she meets Mario (Ruben Rojo), a handsome young man who falls for her. Elena accepts his marriage proposal, only to discover, through a bitter twist of fate, that Rosaura is the mother of Mario. Elena decides to continue with her plans as a way of torturing Rosaura and avenge all the evil that caused her. But Lucio escape from prison, complicating the Elena riot situation.
The beginning of the film shows that this family is considered to upper class. They are all dressed very nicely and the men are about to go to work, so that shows that they are also of the working class. When Elena comes home she finds that her mother is having an affair and she is so upset that she leaves the house. When she returns she finds her father devastated that Elena’s mother has left them. Her father so upset, he kills himself. Elena is then left alone without any parent figure; she is then considered an orphan. She has no one and has to learn to fend for herself. She has various jobs where all of the men try to abuse her sexually. This foreshadows her future job as a dancer.
When she runs into Lucio, who says he can offer her a job, she agrees to go with him. He then gets her drunk and they go up to Petra’s office. Lucio proceeds to sell Elena as a prostitute for Petra. Elena is then stuck at the house because if she calls the authorities they threaten to hurt her. After working for Petra she begins to let her anger out on the clients and begins to get in more trouble.
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