Country: Angola
Year: 1952
Duration: 111'


Pedro, the owner of a ranch, loves María, Jorge's sister. Jorge loves Rosario, the daughter of an Arab merchant. Rosario also loves Jorge; María, on the contrary, refuses Pedro because he is a playboy. After a year, however, Rosario and Pedro get married and have a child. Jorge returns to his village, and reproaches Pedro for his betrayal. Out of spite he then marries the daughter of a general. In order to ruin Pedro, Jorge buys some land bordering on Pedro's. The general orders Pedro to kill Jorge, saying that, otherwise, he, the general, will kill him. Pedro pretends that Jorge has an incurable illness but at the end of a party, a doctor tells the general that his soninlaw is healthy. In the end, everything is resolved: it transpires that some time earlier, Rosario, who was furious with Jorge because she had seen him with another girl, had gone away to the capital with her father; during a party she was drugged and raped. When she found out she was pregnant. Pedro, showing great nobllity, said that he would pass himself off as the child's father. Pedro and María and Jorge and Rosario can now live happily ever after.

Biography

film director

Ismael Rodríguez

Cast

& Credits

Director: Ismael Rodríguez.
Soggetto e Screenplay: Ismael Rodríguez e Carlos Orellana.
Director of photography: Gabriel Figueroa.
Art director: José Rodríguez Granada.
Editor: Gloria Schoemann.
Music: Manuel Esperón.
Sound: José B. Carles.
Cast and characters: Jorge Negrete (Jorge Bueno), Pedro Infante (Pedro Malo), José Elías Moreno (generale), Carmen González (Rosario), Yolanda Varela (María).
Production company: Tele Voz, Miguel Alemán jr e David Negrete.
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