María Cristina (film)
María Cristina is a Mexican drama film directed by Ramón Pereda. It was released in 1951 and starring María Antonieta Pons and Carlos Cores. The film was inspired in the song "María Cristina me quiere gobernar" by Ñico Saquito. Plot. Maria Cristina (María Antonieta Pons) is an unemployed provincial young girl reaching to the Mexico City accompanied by her grandmother (Prudencia Grifell) settling into a neighborhood. A neighbor recommends working in a cabaret behind her grandmother. There, Maria Cristina finds the love. Reviews. The film premiered in four rooms of Mexico City in 1951. The journalist Mauricio  Peña related in his analysis of this film for the magazine "Somos" in 1999: "We assure you that is not easy to recover after seeing María Antonieta Pons in "Maria Cristina", because even the conventional story, is the absolute pinnacle of the art of this beautiful Cuban rumbera".