María Candelaria

Dolores del Rio and Pedro Armendáriz star as two virtuous, but unlucky lovers in this tragedy set in the not-so-idyllic village of Xochimilco. Del Rio plays the titular heroine whose only sin was to be born of a prostitute, a heritage she can never escape. Embodying an imaginary ideal of indigenous purity and pinned between her neighbors' hatred and a repressive economic system, Maria struggles for a better life in a world hellbent on denying it to her.