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Director
  
Roberto Gavaldon

Music director
  
Rodolfo Halffter

Language
  
Spanish

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Duration
  

Country
  
Mexico

The Kneeling Goddess movie poster

Writer
  
Edmundo Baez
,
Alfredo B. Crevenna
,
Tito Davison
,
Ladislas Fodor
,
Jose Revueltas

Release date
  
13 August 1947

Screenplay
  
Jose Revueltas, Roberto Gavaldon, Tito Davison

Cast
  
María Félix
(Raquel Serrano),
Arturo de Córdova
(Antonio Ituarte),
Rosario Granados
(Elena (as Charito Granados)),
Fortunio Bonanova
(Nacho Gutiérrez),
Carlos Martínez Baena
(Esteban (as Carlos M. Baena))

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The Kneeling Goddess (Spanish:La Diosa Arrodillada) is a 1947 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring María Félix, Arturo de Córdova and Rosario Granados. It was shot at the Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City, with sets designed by the art director Manuel Fontanals.

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Plot

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The married business man Antonio (Arturo de Córdova) is carrying on an affair with Raquel (María Félix), who wants him to divorce his wife Elena (Rosario Granados). Instead breaking off the affair with Raquel, he purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a statue - the titular Kneeling Goddess - that unbeknownst to him at that moment used Raquel as the model. Obsessed with Raquel he reinitiates the affair and appears to agree with Raquel to divorce Elena. When Elena dies in mysterious circumstances and Antonio marries Raquel, not everything is as it appears.

Cast

  • María Félix as Raquel Serrano
  • Arturo de Córdova as Antonio Ituarte
  • Rosario Granados as Elena
  • Fortunio Bonanova as Nacho Gutiérrez
  • Carlos Martínez Baena as Esteban
  • Rafael Alcayde as Demetrio
  • Eduardo Casado as Licenciado Jiménez
  • Luis Mussot as Dr. Vidaurri
  • Carlos Villarías as Juez
  • Natalia Gentil Arcos as María
  • Paco Martínez as Villarreal
  • Rogelio Fernández as Marinero
  • Alfredo Varela padre as Juez registro civil
  • José Arratia
  • Adolfo Ballano Bueno
  • Fernando Casanova as Empleado juzgado
  • Ana María Hernández as Invitada a fiesta
  • Miguel Ángel López as Joven mensajero
  • [José Muñoz as Detective policía
  • Juan Orraca as Detective
  • Manuel Pozos as José
  • Félix Samper as Asociado en mesa redonda
  • Juan Villegas as Empleado de Antonio

    • References

    The Kneeling Goddess Wikipedia
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    The Kneeling Goddess IMDb The Kneeling Goddess themoviedb.org