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Bellas de noche
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Wikipedia article
'Bellas de noche' (in English 'Beauties by Night'), also known as 'Las ficheras', is a Mexican film directed by Miguel M. Delgado. It was filmed in 1975 and starring Sasha Montenegro and Jorge Rivero. It is regarded as the film that began the rise of Mexican sex comedies film genre as a largely mainstream genre in the Mexican Cinema for about a decade and a half; the term "fichera" coming to mean the entire genre.
Plot
The Boxer Germn 'Bronco' Torres (Jorge Rivero) loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret 'El Pirul (The Lollipop)', where he falls for the 'fichera' Carmen (Sasha Montenegro), and befriends the pimp Margarito Fuensanta 'El Vaselinas' (Eduardo de la Pea), who lost a bet and has to pay it to some gangsters. For 500 pesos for 'El Vaselinas', 'Bronco' prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul (Enrique Novi), to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita (Leticia Perdign). When he discovers the situation, he hits the driver and send him to prison. Ral sold his taxi so He can pay bail. 'El Vaselinas' pretends to be dead in order to get rid of his creditors. The cabaret is closed and everybody begins a new life. In the adventures of these characters, appended the alcoholic woman known as 'La Corcholata' (Carmen Salinas), a sympathetic woman trying to sneak to the cabaret, and the history of the owner of the cabaret, Don Atengenes (Ral 'Chato' Padilla), and his wife, the mistress of the brothel, Maria Teresa (Rosa Carmina).
Production
The film is an adaptation of the stage play by Francisco Cavazos 'Las ficheras'. In 1975, the film packed the movie theaters in Mexico City for 26 weeks. It was a production of Cinematogrfica Caldern and was directed by Miguel M. Delgado. The Mexican Government censorship prohibited the previous title of the film ('Fichera' is a derogatory way of calling a cabaret woman in Mexico). Therefore, as a "tribute" to Luis Buuel, the screenwriter Victor Manuel Castro took the title of the film 'Belle de Jour'.[http://algarabia.com/algarabia-topicos/los-origenes-del-cine-de-ficheras/ 'Los orgenes del Cine de ficheras']
Cast
* Sasha Montenegro as 'Carmen'
* Jorge Rivero as 'Germn "Bronco" Torres'
* Rosa Carmina as 'Mara Teresa'
* Ral 'Chato' Padilla as 'Don Atengenes'
* Leticia Perdign as 'Lupita'
* Carmen Salinas as 'La Corcholata'
* Enrique Novi as 'Ral'
* Eduardo de la Pea as 'El Vaselinas'
* Mabel Luna as 'La Mueca'
* Vctor Manuel Castro as 'Fabin'
* Rafael Incln as 'El MovidAS'
References
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