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Mara Cristina (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Mara Cristina' is a Mexican drama film directed by Ramn Pereda. It was released in 1951 and starring Mara Antonieta Pons and Carlos Cores. The film was inspired in the song 'Mara Cristina me quiere gobernar' by ico Saquito.
Plot
Maria Cristina (Mara Antonieta Pons) is an unemployed provincial young girl reaching to the Mexico City accompanied by her grandmother (Prudencia Grifell) settling into a neighborhood. A neighbor recommends working in a cabaret behind her grandmother. There, Maria Cristina finds the love.
Cast
* Mara Antonieta Pons ... 'Mara Cristina'
* Carlos Cores
* Fernando Casanova
* Prudencia Grifell ... 'Mara Cristina's grandmother'
* Carolina Barret
Reviews
The film premiered in four rooms of Mexico City in 1951. The journalist Mauricio Pea related in his analysis of this film for the magazine 'Somos' in 1999: 'We assure you that is not easy to recover after seeing Mara Antonieta Pons in "Maria Cristina", because even the conventional story, is the absolute pinnacle of the art of this beautiful Cuban rumbera'.
References
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