The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
Acting
Arturo de Córdova's exhausted panic as the trapped bigamist.
Writing
Clockwork plotting of two households colliding inevitability.
Production
Veracruz/Mexico City split capturing 1960s regional class dynamics.
Director
Rafael Baledón
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Mexico's 'comedia ranchera' golden age, when domestic farce let audiences laugh at social hypocrisy the censors wouldn't let dramas address directly.
Arturo de Córdova was Mexico's biggest star but took this role specifically to subvert his usual suave romantic lead image — audiences LOATHED him here, which he considered a triumph.
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