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Nosotros los pobres (1948)

Nosotros los pobres poster
Directed by
Ismael Rodríguez
Genre
drama film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
2h 08m
Rating
8.1 of 10 from 114 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a poor carpenter named Pepe el Toro and the people in his Mexico City neighborhood. It depicts their struggles with poverty, love, and everyday life, balancing humor with tragedy.

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What happens

Nosotros los pobres ("We, the Poor") is a 1948 Mexican Drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez, and starring Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz "Chachita" and Blanca Estela Pavón. This film is the first part in a trilogy of movies, with Ustedes los ricos following in 1948 and Pepe el toro in 1953. All three were produced during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Nosotros los pobres was originally titled Topillos y Planillas (named after two of the characters in the film and before the main character Jose "Pepe el Toro" was created), but later changed after its author Pedro de Urdimalas heard Abel Cureño (who's also in the film and at that time was playing a street vendor selling oranges in the radio show La Banda de Huipanguillo) commenting (in character) about the unfair treatment of the poor people in the city exclaimed: "Nosotros los pobres somos despreciados por la gente; Nosotros los pobres no tenemos nada" ("We the poor are outcast by society; We the poor own nothing"). Although it won no prizes, it remained for many years Mexico's all-time leader in box-office receipts and is often shown on television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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