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Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.Read moreLess
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
The story
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Cast & crew
Damián AlcázarMarro
Patricia Reyes SpíndolaTomasa
Alejandro ParodiCarmelo
Evangelina SosaPerla
Ernesto YáñezEneasExplore the crew
- Director
- Arturo Ripstein
- Screenplay
- Paz Alicia Garciadiego
- Producer
- Michael Donnelly
- Producer
- Allen Persselin
- Producer
- Hugo Scherer
- Director of Photography
- Ángel Goded
- Editor
- Carlos Puente