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The Dressel Family

The Dressel Family

Jul 13, 1935 1h 20m
3.7
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Synopsis

Fernando de Fuentes was among the most famous and versatile writer-directors of Mexican cinema’s Golden Age, etching his style on genres as varied as the Western and the musical. In his immigrant melodrama The Dressel Family, De Fuentes addresses the “problem” of the ferreteros: successful bourgeois German families who established their own self-sufficient community within Mexico City, but in doing so—it was widely felt—preserved their haughty colonialist attitudes toward the native population. The head of the Dressel household is a proud and stubborn German matriarch who, disdainful of her son’s mixed marriage, sets out to destroy the reputation of his young wife, a Mexican radio singer (played by the beautiful and talented Consuelo Frank).

Title The Dressel Family
Companies Impulsora Cinematográfica (ICSA)
Countries Mexico
Keywords
Jorge Vélez

Jorge Vélez

Federico / Friedric
Rosita Arriaga

Rosita Arriaga

Frau Dressel
Ramón Armengod

Ramón Armengod

Gonzalo Ramirez
Julián Soler

Julián Soler

Rodolfo / Rudolph
Liebe Wolf

Liebe Wolf

Helga Petersen

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