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Charros, gauchos y manolas (1930)
Directed by Xavier Cugat
Overview
The magazine “Paintings of the People” initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker’s famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Carmen Castillo | Delia Magaña | Samuel Pedraza | Carlos Gómez Don Chema | Paul Ellis | Carmen Granada | Vicente Padula | Carlos Lucanti | Maria Alba | Martín Garralaga | Marina Ortiz | José Peña | Romualdo Tirado