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La Zandunga (Mexico, 1937)

Directed by Fernando de Fuentes

In a small town on the isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, beautiful Lupe (Lupe Vélez) awakens the admiration of many men, including the sailor, Juancho (Arturo de Córdova). When Juancho sails away, promising to return, Lupe is caught in a classic story of womankind, tending her heart while watching the sea (and fielding the proposals of new interlopers). Mainly a vehicle for Vélez, the film shows de Córdova, still an emerging personality, to great advantage.

Producer: Perdo A. Calderón. Screenwriter: F. de Fuentes, Salvador Novo, Rafael M. Saavedra. Cinematographer: Ross Fisher, Alex Phillipa. Editor: Charles L. Kimball. Cast: Lupe Vélez, Rafael Falcon, Arturo de Córdova, Joaquin Pardave, Carlos López. 

35mm, b/w, in Spanish with English subtitles, 107 min.