''Café Concordia'' is a 1939 Mexican

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directed by

Alberto Gout Alberto Gout (1913–1966) was a Mexican screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director.Biltereyst & Gennari p.76 Selected filmography * ''Café Concordia'' (1939) * ''When the Stars Travel'' (1942) * ''Saint Francis of Assisi (film), S ...

and starring

Janet Alcoriza Janet Alcoriza (born Janet Riesenfeld; January 4, 1918 – November 12, 1998), also known as Raquel Rojas, was an American screenwriter and actress of Austrian and Scotch-Irish descent who spent most of her career in Mexico. She contributed to mo ...

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and

Tomás Perrín Tomás Perrín (January 4, 1914 – May 10, 1985) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared with María Félix in the historical film ''The White Monk ''The White Monk'' (Spanish:''El monje blanco'') is a 1945 Mexican historical drama film directed ...

. Alfaro p.58

Cast

as Raquel *

as Julián *

as Ernesto de la Fuente *

Mimí Derba María Herminia Pérez de León, better known as Mimí Derba (9 October 1893 – 14 July 1953) was a Mexican actress, screenwriter, and film director, considered the first female film director in Mexico. Early life At the age of seventee ...

as Doña Laura * Matilde Corell as Rita * Josefina Escobedo as Gabriela *

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as Paco - mesero *

Agustín Isunza Agustín Isunza (1900–1978) was a Mexican film actor.Agrasánchez p.158 He appeared in over two hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' Café Concordia'' (1939) * '' Horse for Horse'' (1939) * '' In the Times of Don Porfirio' ...

as Pepe - mesero *

Julio Villarreal Julio Villarreal (7 November 1885 – 4 August 1958) was a Spanish actor who later settled and worked in Mexico. He also directed two films in the early 1930s.Taibo p.155 Born as Julio Crochet i Martínez Villarreal in Madrid to a family of theat ...

as don Antonio * Víctor Junco *

Julia Alonso Julia Alonso Marquez (1890–1977) was a Mexican composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. Born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Alonso studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, and had achieved success as a composer by the age of twenty-five. After gr ...

Hernán Vera Hernán Rogelio Vera Pavía (28 October 1892 – 29 January 1964) was a Mexican actor known for usually playing short, small roles, usually as a bartender, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He began his career in theater, with some works ...

References

Bibliography

* Alfaro, Eduardo de la Vega. ''Alberto Gout (1907-1966)''. Cineteca Nacional, 1988. * Richard, Alfred. ''Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic image: an interpretive filmography, 1936-1955''. Greenwood Press, 1993.

External links

* 1939 films 1930s Spanish-language films Mexican black-and-white films Mexican drama films 1939 drama films 1930s Mexican films Films directed by Alberto Gout Films set in the 1900s Mexican historical films 1930s historical films {{1930s-Mexico-film-stub