Pepita Jimenez

Feb 22, 1946

1h 24m

★ 4.8

Overview

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Águila Films

Producciones Cafisa

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Cast

Pepita Jimenez

Rosita Díaz Gimeno

Luis Vargas

Ricardo Montalban

Don Pedro Vargas

Fortunio Bonanova

Antonieta

Consuelo Guerrero de Luna

Padre Belisario

Carlos Orellana

Conde

Rafael Alcayde

Don Gumersindo

José Morcillo

Poeta

Antonio Bravo

Ceferino

Manuel Noriega

Tía Casilda

Conchita Sáenz

Don Hermogenes

Manuel Pozos

Don Onofre

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