A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
Acting
Isela Vega's weary matriarch anchors the absurdity.
Direction
Cazals brings art-house cred to exploitation material.
Costume
Daughters' outfits are basically characters themselves.
Director
Felipe Cazals
Isela Vega
Cuca
Patricia Rivera
Cuca's Eldest Daughter
Isaura Espinoza
Cuca's Daughter Maria
Blanca Guerra
Cuca's Stammering Daughter
Merle Uribe
Cuca's Daughter Inocencia / Chencha
Amparo Muñoz
Cuca's Daughter Crescencia
Alfred Lucchetti
Alcalde / Mayor
Susana Cabrera
Cuco's Boss Benita
Nadiuska
Julita
Alberto Rojas
Maimón
Ariadna Welter
Butcher
Rosenda Monteros
Benita's Servant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Mexico's 'cine de ficheras' wave—working-class sex comedies that dominated 70s-80s box offices despite critical disdain.
Cazals was an art-house darling slumming it here; the tension between his social realist instincts and the producers' T&A demands is palpable.
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