Patria Films

This was Gardel's first film and was directed by Francisco Defilippis Novoa and was made in collaboration with Celestino Petray.

Carmen is an employee at the posh Harrod's store in Buenos Aires. She meets Juan Manuel, a young man from a wealthy family. An impossible relationship will arise between the two of them against their different social classes.

Based on the assassination attempt of Napoleon III and his wife, the Spanish Eugenia de Montijo, carried out on January 14, 1858 by a group of four Italian independence fighters led by Felice Orsini.