Description

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.

Cast

Albert Finney

Jacqueline Bisset

Anthony Andrews

Ignacio López Tarso

Katy Jurado

James Villiers

Carlos Riquelme

Eleazar García Jr.

Salvador Sánchez

Sergio Calderón

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