TITLE...........: Victims of Sin (1951) [Víctimas del pecado]
STARS...........: Ninon Sevilla, Tito Junco, Rodolfo Acosta, Rita Montaner
DIRECTOR........: Emilio Fernandez
WRITERS.........: Emilio Fernandez
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Music
IMDB SCORE......: 7.5
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043115
RUNTIME.........: 1h 25mn
SIZE............: 6.07 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 10000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1472x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.36:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: Spanish FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-11-28
CHECKSUM........: 050122CB496BCE38E8F440303F5E3139


A treasure of Mexico’s cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninón Sevilla. She brings fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera—a female nightclub dancer—who gives up everything to raise an abandoned boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father. Directed at a dizzying pace by filmmaking titan Emilio Fernández, and shot in stylish chiaroscuro by renowned cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa amid smoky dance halls and atmospherically seedy underworld haunts, Victims of Sin is a ferociously entertaining female-powered noir pulsing with the intoxicating rhythms of some of Latin America’s most legendary musical stars.


Extras

• Interview with filmmaker and archivist Viviana Garcia Besne
• Interview with cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on the work of Gabriel Figueroa
• Archival documentary on Cine de rumberas
• Trailer