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Café Colón

1959 · 85 min

A melodrama of unlikely romance and revolution, earnest in its passions and a little hard to take at face value.

Directed by: Benito Alazraki
Starring: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

Overview: Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.

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Directed by: Benito Alazraki
Starring: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

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Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
war
class
Places: None
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Directed by: Benito Alazraki
Written by: Rafael F. Muñoz, Eduardo Galindo
Starring: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Luis Beristáin, Emilio Garibay, José Chávez
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Runtime: 85 min

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