Las Abandonadas

Las Abandonadas
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Emilio Fernández
Produced by	Felipe Subervielle
Written by	Emilio Fernández Mauricio Magdaleno
Starring	Dolores del Río Pedro Armendáriz Víctor Juco Paco Fuentes Fanny Schiller Maruja Grifell
Music by	Manuel Esperón
Cinematography	Gabriel Figueroa
Edited by	Gloria Schoemann
Distributed by	Films Mundiales
Release dates	1945
Running time	103 minutes
Country	México
Language	Spanish

Las Abandonadas (The Abandoned) is a Mexican film of 1945, directed by Emilio Fernández, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.

Plot

Margarita (Dolores del Rio) is a young woman abandoned by her fiance. She is forced to perform various jobs to raise her son, in a tumultuos Mexico of the 1920s.

Curiosities

• The film featured one of the most expensive costumes of that era in Mexican cinema, created by designer Armando Valdés Peza.
• The film features one of the most famous moments of the Mexican Cinema in the famous scene in which the character of Dolores del Río descends a staircase and General Juan Gomez (Armendariz) yells at everyone present: -A man who approaches this woman I killed him! -. This scene is a demonstration of veneration felt by Emilio Fernandez and Gabriel Figueroa by Dolores del Rio.
• This film ranks 93 in the list of the 100 best films of Mexican cinema, in the opinion of 25 film critics and specialists in Mexico.^[1]

References

1. Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano

External links

• Las Abandonadas at the Internet Movie Database