A flamenco beauty in Paris, a broke painter, and a rich Englishman with a creepy proposition—what could go wrong?
A Spanish folk group goes to Paris hired by a French businessman, but he runs away, leaving them without resources. Pastora, beautiful Seville, reminds that she has a friend in Paris who is painter. Her companions and her ask him for help to return to Spain. The painter wants to help them but first he have to sell a paint to a wealthy Englishman to get resources. The Englishman goes to his place and fall in love with Pastora, and instead of buying the paint suggests to pay the return trip for all of them if Pastora stays with him in Paris.
Costume
Estrellita Castro's flamenco dresses are absolutely divine
Acting
Castro's star power carries every scene she's in
Production
Rare Spanish-Parisian co-production from WWII era
Director
Fernando Delgado
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Estrellita Castro was Spain's biggest folk musical star; this film helped establish the 'españolada' genre of exoticized national identity for export.
Shot during WWII when Spanish cinema increasingly looked to France and Latin America for co-productions, making this a rare surviving example of that economic desperation mirrored in its plot.
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