La calandria (1933)

A 1933 film.

Date of release
1933-08-30
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Fernando de Fuentes

Casting

Interesting facts

La calandria is a 1933 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

Production

The film was shot in the México Film studios from 8 July 1933 onwards. Some scenes were shot on location in Orizaba.

A "tragic love story", it is one of the films made by de Fuentes in an intense period of creativity in the early 1930s, these films being called "all exceptional works of the early sound period." The film has also been described as "a traditionalist and provincial melodrama." It is also one of the Mexican films "set in the time of the nineteenth-century hacienda system" and revolving around the character of a charro.

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