Cinnamon Skin | |
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Directed by | Juan José Ortega |
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Produced by | Ramón Peón Juan José Ortega |
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Cinematography | Manuel Gómez Urquiza |
Edited by | José W. Bustos |
Music by | Gonzalo Curiel |
Production company | Compañía Cinematográfica Mexicana |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
Cinnamon Skin (Spanish: Piel canela) is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Juan José Ortega and starring Sara Montiel, Manolo Fábregas and Ramón Gay.[1] It was set and partly filmed in Cuba.
In Havana, gangster moll and singer Marucha, who has had a disfigured face since childhood, is helped by a plastic surgeon who falls madly in love with her. The doctor hopes to reform her and turn her into a good woman by transforming her face through surgeries. However Marucha, with her new beautiful face, has other plans and becomes a night club entertainer and a highly paid prostitute.[2]