The Dressel Family

Fernando de Fuentes was among the most famous and versatile writerdirectors of Mexican cinemas Golden Age etching his style on genres as varied as the Western and the musical In his immigrant melodrama The Dressel Family De Fuentes addresses the problem of the ferreteros successful bourgeois German families who established their own selfsufficient community within Mexico City but in doing soit was widely feltpreserved their haughty colonialist attitudes toward the native population The head of the Dressel household is a proud and stubborn German matriarch who disdainful of her sons mixed marriage sets out to destroy the reputation of his young wife a Mexican radio singer played by the beautiful and talented Consuelo Frank