Amoeba Music

A treasure of Mexico’s cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninón Sevilla. She brings fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera—a female nightclub dancer—who gives up everything to raise an abandoned boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father. Directed at a dizzying pace by filmmaking titan Emilio Fernández, and shot in stylish chiaroscuro by renowned cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa amid smoky dance halls and atmospherically seedy underworld haunts, Victims of Sin is a ferociously entertaining female-powered noir pulsing with the intoxicating rhythms of some of Latin America’s most legendary musical stars.

Special Features:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New interview with filmmaker and archivist Viviana Garcia Besné
• New interview with cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on the work of Gabriel Figueroa
• Archival documentary on cine de rumberas, featuring interviews with actor Ninón Sevilla
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• An essay by scholar Jacqueline Avila