The film that was a hit of our 1994 series on Mexican cinema and at the TellurideFilm Festival. Victims of Sin is a tour-de-force for Ninón Sevilla, rumbadancer first and foremost, and incidentally an over-the-top actress. She portraysa cabaret dancer trying to raise a kid and forced into prostitution."Victims of the Social Structure" doesn't make a very good title butthat's what it's all about; the social drama, exploited in the rumberas to thepoint of high camp, is nevertheless a dark aspect of the genre. Rodolfo Acosta isSevilla's perverse pimp/artistic director and his zoot-suited dance will bringdown the house. Meanwhile, Tito Junco as her enigmatic would-be savior walks thestreets with his sorrows and ever-present mariachi music in tow. Also discoverhere the rhythms of Perez Prado and urban chanteuse Rita Montaner. DirectorEmilio Fernández was a keen practitioner of Cuban rhythms.