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MEXICO · 1949

The Unloved Woman

Emilio “Indio” Fernández
family dysfunction obsession forced marriage escape and entrapment domestic abuse
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Synopsis

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the g

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