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Women's Things (1979)
Directed by Rosa Martha Fernández
Documentary, Drama · 45m
A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.
Cast
Martin LaSalle
Crew
- Director
- Rosa Martha Fernández
- Writer
- Rosa Martha Fernández
- Producer
- Rosa Martha Fernández
Details
- Original title
- Cosas de mujeres
- Release date
- 1979-02-02
- Runtime
- 45m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Mexico
- Production
- Colectivo Cine Mujer, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), UNAM