"Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary impulse still held firm. In this respect, tells...
A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.
At a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Heriberto Drake. Heriberto who is happily married, bets Felton that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Felton kiss her for 48...
