Directed by:
Emilio FernándezScreenplay:
Mauricio MagdalenoCinematography:
Gabriel FigueroaComposer:
Antonio Díaz CondeCast:
Ninón Sevilla, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Francisco Reiguera, Rodolfo Acosta, Gloria Mestre, Carlos León, Ricardo Adalid, Hernán Vera, Arturo Soto Rangel (more)Plots(1)
A treasure of Mexico’s cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninón Sevilla. She brings fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera—a female nightclub dancer—who gives up everything to raise an abandoned boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father. Directed at a dizzying pace by filmmaking titan Emilio Fernández, and shot in stylish chiaroscuro by renowned cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa amid smoky dance halls and atmospherically seedy underworld haunts, Victims of Sin is a ferociously entertaining female-powered noir pulsing with the intoxicating rhythms of some of Latin America’s most legendary musical stars. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Ninón Sevilla
Cuba
Luis Aceves Castañeda
Mexico
Best movies:
Nazarin (1959)
Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
Ascent to Heaven (1952)
Francisco Reiguera
Spain
Best movies:
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992)
Viva Maria! (1965)
Major Dundee (1965)
Rodolfo Acosta
Mexico
Best movies:
The Proud Ones (1956)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Drum Beat (1954)
Gloria Mestre
Mexico
Best movies:
The Brute (1953)
Carlos León
Best movies:
Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
Santo & Blue Demon vs. Dracula & the Wolfman (1973)
Museum of Horror (1964)
Ricardo Adalid
Spain
Best movies:
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1962)
A Woman Without Love (1952)
Hernán Vera
Mexico
Best movies:
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)
Daughter of Deceit (1951)
Arturo Soto Rangel
Mexico
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
The Big Steal (1949)
Tito Junco
Mexico
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
A Woman Without Love (1952)
Death in the Garden (1956)
Lupe del Castillo
Best movies:
María Candelaria (1944)
Enedina Díaz de León
Best movies:
Los olvidados (1950)
Nazarin (1959)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Lupe Carriles
Mexico
Best movies:
Los olvidados (1950)
Nazarin (1959)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Carlos Riquelme
Mexico
Best movies:
Under the Volcano (1984)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Aurora Cortés
Best movies:
The River and Death (1955)
Ignacio Peón
Best movies:
Nazarin (1959)
This Strange Passion (1953)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Álvaro Matute
Best movies:
This Strange Passion (1953)
The River and Death (1955)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)
Pedro Vargas
Mexico
Salvador Godínez
Best movies:
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Nazarin (1959)
Letters from Marusia (1976)
Rogelio Fernández
Best movies:
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)