The Queen of the Night
La reina de la noche
Release: 1994-09-07
·Runtime: 117m
·★ 4.7
Drama
Romance
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Production Countries
Mexico
France
United States of America
Production Companies
Ultra Films
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Entertainment Artists
El Tenampa Filmworks
Les Films du Nopal
Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica
Universidad de Guadalajara
Producciones Amaranta
Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Alberto Estrella
as Pedro Calderón
Ana Ofelia Murguía
as Doña Victoria
Blanca Guerra
as La Jaira
Marta Aura
as Balmori
Max Kerlow
as Serge
Luisa Huertas
as Beggar
Mayra Sérbulo
Patricia Reyes Spíndola
as Lucha Reyes
Alex Cox
as Klaus Eder
Guillermo Gil
as Gato Linares
Mara Escalante
as Angelina
Roberto Sosa
as Gimeno
Juan Carlos Colombo
as Araujo
Verónica Langer
as Marga
