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Vctimas del Pecado
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Wikipedia article
'Vctimas del Pecado' ('Victims of the Sin') is a 1951 Mexican drama film directed by Emilio Fernndez and starring Ninn Sevilla. It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City.
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 Prez Prado and Pedro Vargas". The film was also released as 'Hell's Kitchen'.
Plot
Violeta (Ninn Sevilla), a Cuban dancer from the Cabaret Chang, rescues an infant from a garbage can in Mexico City's red-light district. She decides to raise the baby but this displeases Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta), the club's owner. Santiago (Tito Junco), a rival club owner, falls in love with Violeta and offers his help. Tragedy takes place when Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta) kills Santiago and is then killed by Violeta.
Cast
* Ninn Sevilla as Violeta
* Tito Junco as Santiago
* Rodolfo Acosta as Rodolfo
* Rita Montaner as Rita
* Arturo Soto Rangel as Director de prisin
* Francisco Reiguera as Don Gonzalo
* Lupe Carriles as Doa Longina
* Ismael Prez as Juanito
* Margarita Ceballos as Rosa
Recognition
Awards and nominations
* 1952, Mexican Academy of Film Ariel Awards nomination for Best Cinematography for Gabriel Figueroa* 1952, Mexican Academy of Film Ariel Awards nomination for Best Child Actor for Ismael Prez
Reception
'Twitch Film' felt the film would be a perfect match to be double-billed with Josef von Sternberg's 'Blonde Venus'.Without imagining they were on the verge of securing international fame with the film cabaret series performed by Ninon Sevilla, the Calderon Brothers contracted to Emilio Fernndez to direct this musical melodrama that would be more intense and exacerbated that 'Saln 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 he 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" Fernndez 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').[http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/victimas.html 'Vctimas del pecado in the page of the Mexican Cinema of the ITESM']
Ninon was unsurpassed as the flower that falls in the mud, the star that travels in rotten environments, even though she retains a heart of gold for delivery to a pariah, a hero or a stranger which a past unknown. Could be brave and help to her man, and betray to the gangster that had knocked on his networks. It could also infatuated with someone of the opposite sex, amazed at her honesty, and the love he feels for his adopted son. All this happens in 'Victimas del Pecado'.
References
Further reading
* Analysis of performances in 'Vctimas del Pecado'.
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