''María Cristina'' is a Mexican

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directed by Ramón Pereda. It was released in 1951, starring María Antonieta Pons and Carlos Cores. The film was inspired in the song ''María Cristina me quiere gobernar'' by Ñico Saquito.

Plot

Maria Cristina ( María Antonieta Pons) is an unemployed provincial young girl reaching

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accompanied by her grandmother (

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) settling in a neighborhood. A neighbor recommends working in a cabaret behind her grandmother. There, Maria Cristina finds the love.

Cast

* María Antonieta Pons ... ''María Cristina'' * Carlos Cores * Fernando Casanova *

... ''María Cristina's grandmother'' * Carolina Barret

Reviews

The film premiered in four rooms of Mexico City in 1951. The journalist Mauricio Peña related in his analysis of this film for the magazine ''Somos'' in 1999: ''We assure you that is not easy to recover after seeing María Antonieta Pons in "Maria Cristina", because even the conventional story, is the absolute pinnacle of the art of this beautiful Cuban rumbera''.

References

External links

* 1951 films Mexican black-and-white films Rumberas films 1950s Spanish-language films Mexican drama films 1951 drama films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub