Victimas del Pecado
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| Directed by | Emilio Fernández |
| Produced by | Guillermo Calderòn Pedro Calderòn |
| Written by | Emilio Fernández<or>Mauricio Magdaleno |
| Starring | Ninón Sevilla<or>Rodolfo Acosta<or>Tito Junco<or>Rita Montaner |
| Music by | Antonio Díaz Conde |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | Gloria Schoemann |
| Distributed by | Cinematográfica Calderón SA |
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Release date
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February 2, 1951 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | México |
| Language | Spanish |
Víctimas del Pecado (Victims of the Sin) is a 1951 Mexican drama film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Ninón Sevilla.
Detroit Institute of Arts considers the film as "one of the most famous post-war Mexican films," and shares that it includes "knockout mambo numbers by Pérez Prado and Pedro Vargas". The film was also released as Hell's Kitchen.
Violeta (Ninón Sevilla), a Cuban dancer from the Cabaret Changó, rescues an infant from a garbage can in Mexico City's redlight district. She decides to raise the baby, and her decision places her at odds with Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta), the Cabaret Changó club owner. Rival club owner Santiago (Tito Junco), falls in love with Violeta and offers her his help. Tragedy takes place when Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta) kills Santiago and after Rodolfo is killed by Violeta in turn.
Twitch Film felt the film would be a perfect match to be double-billed with Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus.
Without imagining that were on the verge of securing international fame with the film cabaret series performed by Ninon Sevilla, the Calderon Brothers contracted to Emilio Fernández to direct this musical melodrama that would be more intense and exacerbated that Salón Mexico (1948), the previous raid of " El Indio" into the cabaret environments of the Mexican capital.
As in Salon Mexico, Victimas del Pecado demonstrated the joy of the director in a very particular direct scenes that take place in the cabaret. Also, the director does not hide his love of uplifting moral, nor can avoid some moments of unintentional comedy as one in which the "Pachuco" Rodolfo Acosta shows his ability to speak more than one language while teaching him how to walk with style to a French prostitute. Despite its considerable shortcomings, Victimas del pecado has kept pace in the filmography of "El Indio" Fernández and the passage of time has not been treated so poorly. Figueroa's photography continues to be splendid and as representative of the filmography of Ninon Sevilla is important to note that the film won an unprecedented success in France and Belgium, where he was known as Quartier interdit (Forbidden Neighborhood or Hell's Kitchen).
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