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1936 | B/N | 29:00

A medium-length musical starring children. Alberto is a bourgeois boy who, despite his father’s warnings, decides to go watch the rehearsals carried out by a group of proletarian children, whom he scorns. Later, his father is arrested, accused of treason. The poor children find out and decide to intercede with their parents—members of the committee that possesses a document incriminating Alberto’s father—on his behalf.


Direction: R. González; Valentín
Script: R. González; Valentín
Photography: Piquer; Jaime
Sound: Torrents; Jaime
Music: Godes; Pascual, Mestres; Jaime
Cast:Má; Má, Domínguez; Lolita, Campoy; Carmen, Muñoz; Paquita, Navarro; Rosita, Violeta; Berta, Baldo; Lolita, Cendrá; Marujita, Gómez; Rosita, Morales; Salvador, Nicolás; Maruja, Sierra, Arnaldo; Salvador, Regales; Joaquin, Navarro; Miguel Ángel, Jiménez; Manuel
Art direction: Lorenzo Burgos, Anselmo Domenech
Participation year at FICM: 2017

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