Canción de cuna (1941)
- Original title
- Canción de Cuna
- Directed by
- Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Argentina
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at their convent doorstep and raise her. Years later, the grown woman leaves to get married, and the nun who raised her must let her go.
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What happens
Canción de cuna is a 1941 Argentine film of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, based on the famous 1911 play by Gregorio Martínez Sierra. It is about a group of nuns who find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent and decide to bring her up. The last act shows the girl, now a full-grown woman, leaving the convent to get married, and dramatizes the struggle of the nun who raised her to let her go. Canción de cuna has been filmed many times in Spanish, and produced twice in English on TV's Hallmark Hall of Fame, but this 1941 version is the only one actually directed by the author. The best-known (though extremely rarely shown) version is the 1933 Paramount Pictures production made in English, starring Dorothea Wieck and Evelyn Venable. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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