Feature film
We the Poor
Nosotros los pobres
Ismael Rodríguez · 1948
Synopsis
In a poor district of Mexico City, Pepe el Toro, a carpenter, is raising Chachita, a little girl he has taken in. He courts Celia, who is mistreated by her stepfather, don Pilar, who will stop at nothing, theft included. Misunderstandings, jealousies and blows of fate pile up around them, until the day a murder is committed at a rich employer's house: it is Pepe who is accused, and he is sent to prison.
Context
Written from a story by the director and Pedro de Urdimalas, produced by Rodríguez Hermanos at the México-Films studios and photographed by José Ortiz Ramos to music by Manuel Esperón, the film brings together Pedro Infante (Pepe el Toro), Evita Muñoz (Chachita), Blanca Estela Pavón (Celia), Carmen Montejo and Miguel Inclán (don Pilar). Released on 25 March 1948, it opens a trilogy that the director continued the same year with Ustedes los ricos, then in 1953 with Pepe el Toro.
Who it is for
A little over two hours of black-and-white melodrama, in Spanish, which spares the viewer nothing.
Prizes and reception
Without winning any award, it remained for years the greatest box-office success in the history of Mexican cinema.
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