Victims of Sin
Dir: Emilio FernándezCast: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Rodolfo Acosta
84mins 1951 Mexico Certificate: TBC Spanish | French
Victims of Sin
Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film
A sizzling, feverish melodrama set amid Mexico City’s red-light district nightclubs, this explosive cabaretera film stars the white-hot Ninón Sevilla as Violeta, a rhumba performer who rescues a baby boy abandoned by a fellow dancer.
Against the odds, Violeta raises the child as her own, all the while defending him from his father, the ruthless gangster-pimp Rodolfo.
'As one of the quintessential cabaretera films from the golden age of Mexican cinema, Victims of Sin moves at the quickening pace of the Afro-Cuban rumba dances we witness throughout' - Derek Smith, Slant