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Cantaclaro (1946)

Cantaclaro poster
Directed by
Julio Bracho
Genre
drama film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wandering singer arrives at a Venezuelan cattle ranch and becomes entangled in the lives of the landowners and workers. The story follows his interactions with a proud woman and the tensions between tradition and change.

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What happens

Cantaclaro is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Esther Fernández, Antonio Badú and Alberto Galán. The film is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Rómulo Gallegos. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jesús Bracho, who was the younger brother of Julio Bracho. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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