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Angelitos negros (1970)

Angelitos negros poster
Directed by
Joselito Rodríguez
Genre
drama film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A Mexican family drama from 1970 about a dark-skinned child born to light-skinned parents. The story deals with how the mother rejects her daughter because of her skin color.

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What happens

Angelitos negros (English: Little Black Angels) is a 1970 Mexican melodrama written and directed by Joselito Rodríguez and starring Manuel López Ochoa, Martha Rangel, Titina Romay, and American actress Juanita Moore, whose voice was dubbed to Spanish. The film is a remake of the 1948 film of the same name, also directed by Joselito Rodríguez, in which Titina Romay played the role of the black daughter in blackface. Rangel and Romay were the director's daughters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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