La cera virgen

La cera virgen

1972 · 102 min · ★ 8.5 · Comedy, Music

María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village will parade, which excites even more the lascivious and hypocritical don Florencio.

Directed by José María Forqué · Written by Florentino Soria

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Carmen Sevilla María
José Luis López Vázquez Don Florencio
Maribel Martín Paula
Julia Caba Alba Alcahueta
Valentín Tornos Pascual
Manuel Alexandre Villalba
Emilio Laguna Abogado
Francisco Algora Matías
Alfonso del Real El Botanas
Adriano Domínguez Fiscal

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