The Stork Said Yes

La cigüeña dijo ¡Sí!
Film poster
Directed byEnrique Carreras
Written byAlejandro Casona based on a Carlos Llopis play.
Produced byNicolás Carreras, Luis Carreras y Enrique Carreras
StarringLola Membrives
Tomás Blanco
Esteban Serrador
Susana Campos
CinematographyAlfredo Traverso
Edited byJosé Gallego
Music byVlady
Distributed byProductora General Belgrano
Release date
  • April 22, 1955 (1955-04-22)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

The Stork Said Yes (La cigüeña dijo ¡Sí!) is a 1955 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Carreras, from a script by Alejandro Casona based on a Carlos Llopis play. It stars Lola Membrives, Tomás Blanco, Esteban Serrador and Susana Campos and premiered on April 22, 1955.[1] It was the last of Lola Membrives' few incursions into cinema.[2] In 1971, Carreras remade the film based on the same play as La familia hippie, starring Palito Ortega.[3]

Plot

A mature married couple happily receives the news of pregnancy while a young couple has the disappointment of a frustrated attempt.

Cast

Reception

The critic Manuel Rey, known as "King", said that the film was: "A successful comedy". La Nación wrote that its "festive tone is achieved with communicative grace...its light plot has counted with good effect situations."[4]

References

  1. ^ "La cigüeña dijo ¡Sí!" (in Spanish). Cinenacional.com. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Lola Membrives" (in Spanish). Cinenacional. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ^ Calistro, Mariano (1978). Reportaje al cine argentino: los pioneros del sonoro. ANESA. p. 424.
  4. ^ Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930–1995) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor. p. 113. ISBN 950-05-0896-6.


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