| María Crstina | |
| Director: | Ramón Pereda |
| Producer: | Ramón Pereda |
| Starring: | María Antonieta Pons Carlos Cores Fernando Casanova Prudencia Grifell |
| Music: | Manuel Esperón |
| Cinematography: | Domingo Carrillo |
| Distributor: | Pereda Films |
| Runtime: | 89 min |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Language: | Spanish |
María Cristina is a Mexican drama film directed by Ramón Pereda. It was released in 1951, starring María Antonieta Pons and Carlos Cores. The film was inspired in the song María Cristina me quiere gobernar by Ñico Saquito.
Maria Cristina (María Antonieta Pons) is an unemployed provincial young girl reaching the Mexico City accompanied by her grandmother (Prudencia Grifell) settling in a neighborhood. A neighbor recommends working in a cabaret behind her grandmother. There, Maria Cristina finds the love.
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.[1]