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The continuous music score and the colour photography had much to do with the popularity of this film.

Formally the work is operatic, with the plot advanced entirely through dialogue sung with accompanying music.

The color photography is bright and vivid: and the whole is united by an orchestral score of simple but sincere rhythms and tunes that permeate continuously a story of events lasting at least five years.