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The Queen of the Night

4.5 117 mins Drama   Romance   1994
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía   Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes   Les Films du Nopal   Ultra Films   Entertainment Artists  
Director(s): Arturo Ripstein

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

Casts of The Queen of the Night

Patricia Reyes Spíndola

as Lucha Reyes

Alberto Estrella

as Pedro Calderón

Blanca Guerra

as La Jaira

Ana Ofelia Murguía

as Doña Victoria

Alex Cox

as Klaus Eder

Arturo Alegro

as Oñate

Marta Aura

as Balmori

Roberto Sosa

as Gimeno

Guillermo Gil

as Gato Linares

Max Kerlow

as Serge

Socorro Avelar

as Pulque Saleswoman

Odiseo Bichir

as Bernal

Verónica Langer

as Marga

Mara Escalante

as Angelina

Luisa Huertas

as Beggar

Álvaro Carcaño

as Magdaleno

Maya Mishalska

as Mujer

Adalberto Parra

as Policía

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