The Woman of the Port is a 1934

1934 in film

-Events:*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade...

 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Arcady Boytler

Arcady Boytler

Arcady Arcadievic Boytler Rososky was a producer, screenwriter, and director, most renowned for his films during the golden age of Mexican cinema....

 and starring Andrea Palma

Andrea Palma (Actress)

Andrea Palma was a Mexican film actress. She was considered The First Diva of Mexican and Latin American Cinema after her role in the Mexican film La Mujer del Puerto.-Early life:...

. The film is based on the novel Le Port by French

French literature

French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...

 author Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....

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Plot

Rosario (Andrea Palma

Andrea Palma (Actress)

Andrea Palma was a Mexican film actress. She was considered The First Diva of Mexican and Latin American Cinema after her role in the Mexican film La Mujer del Puerto.-Early life:...

) is a young woman who, after losing her father and discovering the deception of her boyfriend, decides to leave Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 to settle in Veracruz

Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...

. In this port city facing the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

, Rosario is faced with many challenges, beginning with her search for her missing brother. In the narrative of the film, after a night of passion with the sailor Alberto (Domingo Soler), she has a change of fate. Although a part of her identity in the film regards that of a woman who sells her body, thus being labeled as prostitute, destiny surprises her with an interesting fate that goes beyond the mere idea of "selling pleasure to men coming from the sea."

Cast

• Andrea Palma
  Andrea Palma (Actress)
  Andrea Palma was a Mexican film actress. She was considered The First Diva of Mexican and Latin American Cinema after her role in the Mexican film La Mujer del Puerto.-Early life:...
  
   as Rosario
  Rosario
  Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....
  
  
• Domingo Soler as Alberto
• Stella Inda
  Stella Inda
  Stella Inda was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949....
  
  as "a woman in the cabaret"
• Fabio Acevedo as Rosario's father