The Dressel Family

Synopsis

Fernando de Fuentes was among the most famous and versatile writer-directors of Mexican cinema’s 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 self-sufficient community within Mexico City, but in doing so—it was widely felt—preserved 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 son’s mixed marriage, sets out to destroy the reputation of his young wife, a Mexican radio singer (played by the beautiful and talented Consuelo Frank).

Main Cast

Consuelo Frank

Magdalena

Age : N/A | Popularity : 23%

Jorge Vélez

Federico / Friedric

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Rosita Arriaga

Frau Dressel

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ramón Armengod

Gonzalo Ramirez

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Julián Soler

Rodolfo / Rudolph

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Manuel Tamés

Hans

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Liebe Wolf

Helga Petersen

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Fernando de Fuentes
	Assistant Director	Mario de Lara
Writing	Writer	Fernando de Fuentes
Production	Producer	Fernando de Fuentes
	Production Manager	Paul Castelain
Sound	Original Music Composer	Juan S. Garrido
Editing	Editor	Fernando de Fuentes
Art	Art Direction	Francisco Gómez Palacio
Camera	Director of Photography	Ross Fisher Alex Phillips
Department	Role	Name

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