Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul’s self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Genre: Drama Actors: Albert Finney, Alberto Olvera, Alejandro Suárez, Alfonso Castro Valle, Anthony Andrews, Araceli Ladewuen Castelun, Arturo Sarabia, Carlos Riquelme, Dawson Bray, Eduardo Borbolla, Eleazar García Jr., Emilio Fernández, Günter Meisner, Gustavo Fernandez, Hugo Stiglitz, Ignacio López Tarso, Irene Díaz de Dávila, Isabel Vázquez, Jacqueline Bisset, James Villiers, Jim McCarthy, José René Ruiz, Juan Ángel Martínez, Katy Jurado, Mario Arévalo, Martín Palomares Carrión, Ramiro Ramírez, Roberto Sosa, Rodolfo De Alexandre, Salvador Sánchez, Sergio Calderón, Ugo Moctezuma Directors: John Huston Production: Conacite Uno, Ithaca, Universal Pictures
