Cine Latino-Klassiker: "Schließe mich in deine Arme"

Cine Latino (May 9 to 14) offers the best of Latin American cinema, with hand-picked films that have won awards at many international festivals. We are also showing the Mexican classic:

CLOSE ME IN YOUR ARMS - LLEVAME EN TUS BRAZOS

MEX 1954. D: Julio Bracho. D: Ninón Sevilla, Armando Silvestre, Andrea Palma. 92 min. spanOmdtU. FSK: n. A.

In a small fishing village on the Papaloapan River, Rita, the daughter of fisherman Pedro, is in love with José. However, he cancels the wedding plans after he is thrown out as the ringleader of a strike in the sugar factory. At a big village festival, the sugar mill owner blackmails Don Antonio into paying money owed or giving him one of his daughters. Rita decides to go with Don Antonio. The beginning of a path on which she is exploited by many men...
The classic of this year's program, which is returning to cinemas in a restored version, is a Rumbera melodrama about morality, corruption, injustice and social reality. Leading actress Ninón Sevilla, a great star of Mexican cinema as a dancer and actress, made it possible to finance the film, a perfectly balanced blend of melodrama and analysis of political disparities that is perfectly formed and visually intoxicating.

Julio Bracho (1909-1978), Mexican director and screenwriter, came to film via the theater and directed 50 films from 1941 onwards.