La Virgencita de Pompeya

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La Virgencita de Pompeya
Directed byEnrique Cadícamo
Written byEnrique Pedro Maroni
StarringJuan Carlos Cobián
Release date
  • March 14, 1935 (1935-03-14)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

La Virgencita de Pompeya is a 1935 Argentine musical film drama directed by Enrique Cadícamo and written by Enrique Pedro Maroni. It is a tango film from the Golden Age of Argentine cinema that premiered on 14 March 1935 in Buenos Aires.

Plot

A young woman's dilemma between the old man who protects her and the boy who loves her.

Main cast

  • Juan Carlos Cobián
  • Luis Díaz
  • Santos Landa
  • Enrique Pedro Maroni
  • Inés Murray
  • Nelly Quel

Reception

Domingo Di Núbila wrote that the film was “primitive but not without sympathy” and the critic Néstor wrote in the newspaper El Mundo : “a film of minimal values…poor ingenuity…poor in resources and poor in interest…there are errors of all kinds.”[1]

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