Perdida

2009

Directed by

Viviana García-Besné

Starring

Ninón Sevilla, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Armando Silvestre

Runtime

1h 36m

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.