Las poquianchis : [de los pormenores y otros sucedidos del dominio público que acontecieron a las hermanas de triste memoria a quienes la maledicencia así las bautizó] / Conacine y Alpha Centauri presentan ; argumento, Tomás Pérez Turrent ; libro cinematográfico Tomás Pérez Turrent, Xavier Robles ; producción, Jesús Fragoso ; dirección, Felipe Cazals.
María Rojo, Diana Bracho, Malena Doria, Leonor Llausas, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Salvador Sánchez, Pilar Pellicer, Ana Ofelia Murguía. Based on a novel by Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Originally produced in 1976. Bonus: photo gallery.
Summary:
Based on the story of "Las Poquianchis", two sisters from the Mexican state of Guanajuato. During the 1950s through the mid-1960s, they ran a bordello where they recruited young women as maids, forced them into prostitution, and eventually murdered them.
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